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Violin making
Mayson, Walter H. (Walter Henry), 1835-1904. London: "The Strad" Office [etc.], 1902.
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| 13 | INTRODUCTION. | Read | |
| 14 | 2 | an oval assumes, when you can, by drawin… | Read |
| 15 | 3 | What is the origin of this violin or fid… | Read |
| 16 | 4 | As to giving diagrams of supposed eccent… | Read |
| 19 | 7 | VIOLIN MAKING | Read |
| 20 | 8 | germ in the conception of construction o… | Read |
| 21 | 9 | Some are plain, pear tree, in fact; othe… | Read |
| 22 | 10 | is its voice, and which its vendors asse… | Read |
| 23 | 11 | use, and that is, as I do now, I make th… | Read |
| 24 | 12 | So you see how difficult it is even for… | Read |
| 25 | 13 | the bridge, which I mark with a X. The t… | Read |
| 26 | 14 | The upper table or belly, made of pine,… | Read |
| 27 | 15 | if that age be 150 years when naturally… | Read |
| 28 | 16 | two or three hundred years of exposure a… | Read |
| 45 | of finely developed virgin pine, grown o… | Read | |
| 46 | 18 | From what I have said, leading up to wha… | Read |
| 47 | 19 | No. 3 is more compact, if I may so say,… | Read |
| 48 | 20 | CHAPTER II. | Read |
| 49 | 21 | For, when a tree is cut into parts for t… | Read |
| 50 | 22 | that, in the upper plate, would be not o… | Read |
| 51 | 23 | "exactly" wherever exactness that is onl… | Read |
| 52 | 24 | describe a curve to opposite point; and… | Read |
| 53 | 25 | the main body of the still rougher oblon… | Read |
| 54 | 26 | right side first. I cut through the penc… | Read |
| 55 | 27 | outline, for it is not only ugly in itse… | Read |
| 56 | 28 | CHAPTER III. | Read |
| 57 | 29 | the beginning of this paragraph proves i… | Read |
| 58 | 30 | The outlined back, being quite ready for… | Read |
| 59 | 31 | gouge, 54, long ground and very sharp an… | Read |
| 60 | 32 | middle bout at one end only, so that I h… | Read |
| 78 | 34 | But I have not done yet, for there may b… | Read |
| 82 | 38 | the light, being again abominably rough,… | Read |
| 90 | 46 | CHAPTER VII. | Read |
| 91 | 47 | matter how well your back may be gauged,… | Read |
| 92 | 48 | plate, which I hold with my left hand fi… | Read |
| 96 | 52 | the edges, is less able to withstand the… | Read |
| 97 | 53 | advanced; and on this, my favoured mode… | Read |
| 98 | 54 | chord, at which it divides itself, when… | Read |
| 102 | 58 | on the outside with No. 0 sandpaper, the… | Read |
| 103 | 59 | CHAPTER X. | Read |
| 104 | 60 | and give more resistance, this heavy bar… | Read |
| 105 | 61 | bits prove a mockery, as they were place… | Read |
| 106 | 62 | of treatment, as I produce a purity of t… | Read |
| 130 | 72 | In fitting with glue you will now need s… | Read |
| 131 | 73 | and love of truth ought, and I hope will… | Read |
| 133 | 75 | CHAPTER XIII. | Read |
| 134 | 76 | of your hot glue all round the ribs and… | Read |
| 140 | 82 | CHAPTER XV. | Read |
| 141 | 83 | and cut E, A, D, G, finishing approximat… | Read |
| 142 | 84 | that too much is not taken out of the sl… | Read |
| 143 | 85 | would leave to the maker or expert to de… | Read |
| 144 | 86 | that, I roughly mark the shape and thick… | Read |
| 145 | 87 | out at once if slovenly, or ungainly, or… | Read |
| 146 | 88 | CHAPTER XVI. | Read |
| 147 | 89 | whilst a mellowness clings to the very n… | Read |
| 148 | 90 | But to what oil varnish is not my presen… | Read |
| 149 | 91 | roughened surface thus left, place a yel… | Read |
| 150 | 92 | Now, after the first two coats, you must… | Read |
| 167 | 97 | a biped; I shall have nothing whatever t… | Read |
| 168 | 98 | as it is most important that such should… | Read |
| 169 | 99 | looks so and is. When fitted and complet… | Read |
| 170 | 100 | Of course, this operation will be, to th… | Read |