Scan 32
How to Make a Violin, and Violin Notes by Ole Bull. Revised edition., 1910
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1CHAPTER IV.
3THE MODELS.
5BY "a model" is meant a flat piece of wood, Fig. 19, about 1/8 inch thick, which affords a means of drawing the shape which any part of the violin is to take. Great care will be required in shaping these models, as upon them the accuracy of the finished work depends.
7While the amateur will naturally wish to copy the outline of an instrument by one of the great masters, it is not to be supposed that he will possess a back or belly by Amati, Stradivarius or Guarnerius. I therefore give the outline of a violin by each of these masters: see large folding plate.
9A model of either may be made as follows: draw the outline on tracing paper, or, better still, cut out the model chosen from
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