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How to Make a Violin, and Violin Notes by Ole Bull. Revised edition., 1910
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1cause natural mode of attaining this end, and I advise the amateur to avoid baked wood, or wood dosed with chemicals, as he would the plague. The longer the wood has been seasoned by being kept in a dry and airy place and protected from extremes of heat and cold, the better will it be for violin making.
3The wood must be perfectly free from knots, quite sound, not worm eaten, and without flaw of any kind. The grain must be perfectly straight and run lengthwise. The maple must not be too hard or too soft, in the first case the tone will not come freely at the touch of the bow, in the second, it will be dull, muffled and entirely without brilliancy. This, like many other matters in connection with our subject, is a question of judgment and experience. Vuillaume, of Paris, travelled in Italy and Switzerland for the express purpose of procuring pine wood, and bought chairs, tables and other articles of furniture whenever he found the kind of wood he wanted. As it is not possible for every would-be maker to follow his example
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