Bow & Bridge Violin and bow makers, as the old books printed them

Books › The varnishes of the Italian violin-makers of the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and their influence on tone;, 1904 › scan 61

Scan 61

The varnishes of the Italian violin-makers of the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and their influence on tone;, 1904

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1slowly, forward-moving sheet of wire gauze; this has also a lateral shaking motion which, to a certain extent, interlaces the fibres at the moment when the water is leaving them; but this interlacing is less complete than in the first process, for the current of the stream has a tendency to cause all the fibres to float in a longitudinal direction—their longer axes tend to remain in the same plane as that in which the water and the gauze are moving.
3When the sheets of paper so made are sufficiently dry, they are impregnated with a resinous or colloïd substance to an extent sufficient to cause mutual adherence of the fibres without producing an impervious integument.
5The hand-made paper will be (practically) equally strong in every direction; the machine-made will be much stronger longitudinally than laterally. If both kinds of paper, when dry, be again moistened, they will expand; the hand-made nearly equally in all directions, the machine-made much more laterally than longitudinally. If the alternate processes of moistening and drying be repeated, it will be found that the ratio of expansion slowly, but surely, decreases.
7It is therefore perfectly clear that the ultimate fibres of the hemp and wood have retained their original attributes unchanged from first to last.
9In the problem before us we had but two factors:—1st. Turgescence, the increase of rigidity caused by absorption of water; 2nd. The aggregation of effect caused by the mutual adhesion of the cells. It is submitted that clear proof has been adduced that the first factor is a constant; it follows, of necessity, that

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