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How to Make a Violin, and Violin Notes by Ole Bull. Revised edition., 1910
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1quality and texture are the indications, but occasionally it is of brilliant hues, and then it proclaims itself to the eye at once. Let specimens of a later date, say, 1760, be examined, there is no such varnish. This is smooth, fairly lustrous, hard and durable. The chair of 1725 presents a surface broken and worn away, that of 1760, one comparatively smooth, and fairly able to endure further vicissitudes of time.
3"Between the years 1740 and 1760, great changes in the manufacture of varnish were introduced. The old soft gums and their menstrua, capable in themselves of dissolving them, were discarded in favour of newer and more complicated processes producing a result more durable and unchangeable under exposure and rough wear.
5"The old fashion of ornamenting all articles of furniture, whether of ornament or utility, with carvings, had given place to a more sober style. Broad, unrelieved surfaces, depending on the intrinsic beauty of their material, were found a relief to the eye tired with unravelling the mazes of complex
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