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Scan 102
Violin making, 1902
4 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 58. See the scan on archive.org.
1on the outside with No. 0 sandpaper, there is not a clean bit about it—not a curve or sweep or any part true; and when I re-touch it all over, and damp it all over after doing that, when it dries, there are still bits I don't like, and patiently trim it and touch it once or twice again, as I have done to many a poem, to be, perhaps, only engraved in water, or ice at the best; typical, not only of its reception by the world, but of its ultimate starvation and ignominious effacement by the coming warmth of an inspiration congenial to all.
3This being at length quite to my mind, I cut its companion as true to the lines of the other as possible, fig. 14, when I take in hand the placing of the bass bar on the belly, in the rough, preparatory to toning it down in shape, etc., when the glue has s hard.
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