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The Violin: A concise exposition of the general principles of construction.., 1871
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1string to revolve, upon which the thin wire is regularly and uniformly wound. In large establishments this ancient method is supplanted by intricate machinery, by which means enormous lengths of strings are covered in a few hours. An early patent for the manufacture of such strings, by a process somewhat similar to that already described, was obtained by William Lovelace, on January 31st, 1772, No. 1001. The intestines, after having been scraped, soaked and twisted, were bleached with sulphur and oiled, (the two latter processes being now discontinued in the manufacture of strings intended to be wire covered,) after which they were covered in the following manner, as given by the patentee:—"Let two wheels, with grooves on their edges, be fixed on a frame close and similar to each other. Wind the string round the rim of one of these wheels, put the other end of the string through a hollow iron-turned stud and fasten it to the rim of the other wheel, upon the other iron stud, whose bore must be in a line with the upper edges of these wheels or pulleys, so as not to draw the string from a right line. On the stud there must be a pulley, for the band of a large wheel, to move it round, and on the flat of this pulley must be a stud, with a bobbin filled with wire, to move round the stud with a proper degree of stiffness to bind the wire tight upon the string. When this pulley is set in motion, the end of the wire from the bobbin being fastened to the string, it will be wound round the string with very little strain upon the string, and as it winds round the string it will be conveyed from the
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