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Violin making and repairing, 1927
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1several grades of glasspaper, will all be wanted, and the operator may as well provide himself with small quantities of these, as he will find it impossible to carry the work to a successful conclusion without them. A stock of wood, sycamore and Swiss pine, the older the better, will also be necessary. Everything requisite for violin making and repairing—tools, wood, varnish and fittings—is supplied by Mr. Robert Alton, 35, Shakespeare Street, Bootle, Liverpool.
3With this preliminary explanation, necessarily somewhat lengthy, the operations of the various repairs likely to be necessary will be dealt with. One warning is necessary, as in the case of good violin making calm, deliberate workmanship, carefully studied and well thought out, is a sine qua non in fine repair work, and poor repairing is almost worse than none—at any rate, in the case of a good violin. The owner of such an instrument will certainly resent it, and will not fail to voice that resentment; therefore, let the repair be of the best possible workmanship, and do not be beguiled into "rushing" the work either by the owner's plea of wanting the violin back "at once" or on any other consideration whatever. Besides, the fiddle will resent rushed work as well as the owner.
5The largest class of repairing work which will fall to the amateur repairer is the various types of adjustment—fitting bridges, putting up soundposts, replacing pegs, gluing on fingerboards, and re-stringing. Although these repairs or adjustments on first glance may seem simple matters, there is a good deal of experience or knowledge required before they can satis-
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