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How to make a violin. And Violin notes by Ole Bull, 1900
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1CHAPTER XVI.
3VARNISHES AND COLOURING MATTER.
5HAVING completed the violin, the next step is to varnish it, and there are two modes of carrying out this process. The one is genuine, the other is a sham; and if the amateur has succeeded in making an instrument worth varnishing at all, I strongly advise him to varnish it that it may pass for what it is, a new instrument, and not pretend to be what it is not, an old one. New instruments are made to look old by colouring the wood before the real varnish is applied, and leaving those parts uncoloured which in an old violin shows the effects of wear and tear. This fraud is on every ground to be deprecated, for nothing will be gained by it, while the genuine workman, who cares more for turning out a good violin than he does
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