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How to make a violin : The violin, its construction practically treated, 1892
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1INTRODUCTION.
3It is presumed that the amateur is sufficiently enthusiastic to make the attempt, and that he means not merely to make a common box of wood which will sound when played upon, but to produce instruments which will live after him, and to put his best work into every violin he finishes. (Violins are turned out by the thousand every year, but cheap as they are, most of them are dear at the price paid for them because they are made without artistic intelligence, without enthusiasm, without love for the beautiful, and without that minute attention to each particular instrument which alone can secure a perfect work. So many backs, so many bellies, so many necks, so many finger boards, so many bass-bars, so many sound posts, are shaped to a given pattern, fitted together, varnished, and sent into the market as so many violins; but this is not the way to produce one good instrument.) The amateur who reads this book doubtless knows all that can be learnt about the old masters whose names are household words in the violin world, and if
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