Scan 35
How to Make a Violin, and Violin Notes by Ole Bull. Revised edition., 1910
9 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026, twice; the two readings disagreed in places. Printed page 25. See the scan on archive.org.
1Fig. 24 shows the model for drawing and placing the / holes. It will be observed that the position and shape of the / holes varies in different instruments, and a model must be made to suit each style adopted.
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6FIG. 24.
8The four models shown in Figs. 18, 19, 20 and 21 can only be properly made by adjusting them to the back of another instrument. If the amateur cannot obtain access to a good violin for this purpose, he should purchase a copy of a Stradivarius, which can be bought tolerably cheap. If it seems strange that I should recommend a trashy copy as a model for the arching of a good violin, it must be remembered that the Mirecourt copies—those, at any rate, of the better kind, are made accurately to a scale taken from
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