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How to make a violin : The violin, its construction practically treated, 1892
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1great care to select wood of this kind, because they found it more sonorous and brilliant in tone. The maple should be free from red or brown patches, that which is of an uniformly whitish tint is the best.
3The pine should be white, and of perfectly straight grain throughout the length of the instrument. The very finest grain is not so good as that which has an open space between the fibres. The least knot, fault, flaw or curve in the grain will render the piece useless. No other wood but pine is ever used for the belly, though the back has occasionally been made of other woods than maple. Figured wood is advisable if its sonority is not interfered with, as the beautiful and the useful may readily be combined. Some of the backs of Stradivarius combine beauty of appearance and excellence of tone in the highest perfection.
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