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How to Make a Violin, and Violin Notes by Ole Bull. Revised edition., 1910
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1CHAPTER XI.
3THE PURFLING.
5THE purfling is the ornamental black lines running round the outer edge of the back and belly—made of two lines of black with a strip of white wood between.
7The wood for the purfling can be bought ready made at any violin maker's, and it is better to buy it than try to make it, as good machinery is needed to do the work well.
9The grooves for the insertion of the purfling are made with a purfling tool. The distance of the purfling from the edge is a matter of taste. When decided, open the tracer to the required width and fix it with the screw; put the violin on your knees, and trace the first line, running one limb along the outer edge (which is still square,
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