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How to make a violin : The violin, its construction practically treated, 1892
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1Fig. 24 shows the model for drawing and
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5placing the \( f \) holes. It will be observed that the position and shape of the \( f \) holes varies in different instruments, and a model must be made to suit each style adopted.
7The 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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