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The Violin: A concise exposition of the general principles of construction.., 1871
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1it is warm it is poured into paper moulds, after which it is exposed for some time to the sun and air. The purest and finest rosin for the violin is that made from pure Venice turpentine. The violinists of Vienna and several of the other continental capitals are now using liquid colophony, instead of solid rosin. The mixture is applied with a camel's-hair brush, and is said neither to injure the bow nor the strings of the instrument, and to last one hundred hours playing. It is also stated that the strings give out a clearer tone than when solid rosin is used.
3THE STRINGS.
5GUT STRINGS.—In the manufacture of violin strings there are various separate operations undergone ere the article in its finished form is arrived at. Strings vary very much in quality, but certain it is that our English friends can in nowise worthily compete with the French and Italian manufacturer in this well-known article. Whether the muscular thalms of our mountain sheep are equal in quality to those of France or Italy, is a question for others to investigate, but the fact is undeniable that the French and Italian musical strings are vastly superior to those of English manufacture. Violin strings are made from the smaller muscular intestines of the sheep. Catgut is an old and almost universal cognomen for the material forming the violin string, and which undoubtedly has led many of the ignorant to fancifully imagine that such strings are made from the muscular intestinal fibres of our whiskered fireside
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