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How to Make a Violin, and Violin Notes by Ole Bull. Revised edition., 1910
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1Take a strip of hard wood, 2 inches wide, a little longer than the perpendicular, and thick enough not to bend too easily, and find its centre, across which draw a line. Open the large compasses 216 parts, that is, three times the length of the perpendicular, and, having fixed the strip upon the table, draw upon the table a perpendicular line in continuation of the line drawn across the centre of the strip, place one end of the compasses on the perpendicular line upon the strip not too near to the upper edge, and the other point upon the perpendicular drawn upon the table, and draw upon the strip the
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5arc shown in Fig. 40. When cut away this arc will give the proper arch of the violin.
7The length of the / holes is 15 parts; the incision on the inner side of each should be exactly opposite point 40; the head commences opposite point 32 1/2, and the foot ends opposite point 47 1/2. The diameter of the hole at the head is 1 1/3 part, that at the foot 1 3/4 parts; the inner edge of the upper holes should be 9 parts asunder, and the
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