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Scan 41
Notes on the Construction of the Violin, 1902
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1the physical character of the wood. This at once suggests that the process of determining these dimensions was a tentative one; consisting in its final stage of a delicate working down of the tables and widening of the sound-holes after the instrument had been put together, the tables and sound-holes being previously cut as closely to their final dimensions as the experience of a former instrument (made of the same wood) would indicate; a process analogous, for example, to the filing down the metal of a bell for the purpose of flattening its tierce.
3If, as here suggested, the Italian maker possessed a wood
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