Scan 15
How to Make a Violin, and Violin Notes by Ole Bull. Revised edition., 1910
6 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 5. See the scan on archive.org.
1is about to begin to make a violin know what such enthusiasm means? Is he prepared to produce a perfect work, not merely to make a profit by it, not to win admiration for it, not to gain celebrity by it, but because the doing of genuine work, for the reason that it is genuine work, is the highest and purest pleasure known to the enthusiast? This is enthusiasm. The work will not of necessity be bad if profit or fame result from it, but it will certainly be bad if this particular kind of enthusiasm do not inspire every step taken in the process of doing it.
3Few stories have been told oftener than that which tells how Sir Joshua Reynolds informed an inquirer that he mixed his colours with brains. That is the one single commodity with which I cannot undertake to supply the amateur violin-maker. No amount of instruction will enable a fool to make a fiddle.
5No number of difficulties will prevent a man "with a head screwed on the right way about" from working through failure to success. These instructions are only
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