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Scan 38
The violin : how to choose one, 1893
2 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 34. See the scan on archive.org.
1ment. To steep the whole violin bodily in benzine, and afterwards let the spirit evaporate might reach the pest, but as that would loosen all the glue and necessitate the remaking of the whole violin, it is a remedy that few would care to try. I once had an old Russian violin which was badly worm-eaten under the left foot of the bridge. The fiddle was of no value, and I wanted to make an experiment with it, and cut out the worm-eaten part of the breast, a strip about four inches long and half an inch broad, when I found the worm in the centre—a black-headed, grey creature, about half an inch long—alive and wriggling.
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