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Scan 106
Violin making, 1902
8 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 62. See the scan on archive.org.
1of treatment, as I produce a purity of tone which is a matter of so much comment—and I leave it to your investigation.
3The cutting, shaping, and bringing the belly to the note D, by means of this, is part of the work to which you will have to devote great attention: from the shadow thrown by the bar in fig. 15 you will notice that it is shaped somewhat after a gracefully wrought bow, unbent, and at once makes it apparent that it will be a factor for good, as many such have I proved to be.
5The reader must not consider the two blemishes on each upper curve of the D as shown on fig. 15, errors in work; they are evidently thumb marks, and dirty ones, through carelessness of photographer.
7This brings us at length to the end of the construction of back and belly, both of which we shall leave for the present, whilst we consider the very essential ribs.
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