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How to make a violin : The violin, its construction practically treated, 1892
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1CHAPTER IV.
3The Models.
5BY "a model" is meant a flat piece of wood, about one-eighth 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 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 the
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