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THE AMERICAN HISTORY AND ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MUSIC, 1910
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1Provision for Them by the Addition and Strength of Basses so that they do not outcry the Rest of the Musick to Which That Implement is Not naturally Proper."
3Heron-Allen, an English violin maker, in the following words tersely describes the violin as the eye sees it: "A hollow box from thirteen to fourteen inches in length; at the widest part eight and a half inches, and at the narrowest four and one-half inches broad. It is about two and one-half inches deep at the deepest part, and weighs about eight and one-half ounces. Beyond this we have a neck terminating in a scroll, which, with pegs, finger-board and tailpiece of ebony bring the weight up to about twenty ounces. The wondrous capacities and wonderful equilibrium of all the parts may be summed up in one short sentence. It supports a tension on the strings of sixty-eight pounds and a vertical pressure on the bridge of twenty-six pounds."
5A structure so unpretentious scarcely bespeaks intricacies and yet a well wrought violin consists of seventy parts, each cunningly and painstakingly prepared. In every detail, small though it may be, the makers of today and of all days since the Seventeenth Century, have followed where their king, Stradivarius, led. He learned the secrets of each of the parts, and carved and glued them into a congenial whole, so that they would not engage in harsh dispute when the bow touched the strings.
7A violin must be hand made, for, other than the sides which are bent into conformity, each piece must be carved and fitted into shape. The violin may differ slightly in size from its illustrious model, but there must be perfect harmony in all its measurements. A model is the first requisite. The maker often takes an old violin apart and placing the back and the top, or more properly called the belly, upon a sheet of heavy paper or of wood, traces their outline, cutting around with a sharp knife, thus making the pattern.
9The back and belly are usually of two pieces each, joined in the center. The back is of maple as a rule, and the belly of deal or some other soft wood. The wood must
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