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Violin making and repairing, 1927
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1to repair the damage and to fill up holes is wood. I the hole is of considerable extent, pieces may be cut, the hole squared (or rounded with a Cushman bit), and the pieces fitted (in this case the figure, grain and direction of grain of the surrounding material must be closely imitated); or, if the hole is small, the correct method is to fill it up with shredded pine and white glue, levelling down after the glue has set with a keen-edged chisel and fine glasspaper. The colouring of this and other repairs will be dealt with later.
3Chipped Scrolls.—The curls of the scroll on each side are not infrequently broken or chipped away by careless handling, and occasionally one of the "eyes" of the scroll may be missing altogether. It is not permissible to alter the formation of the scroll on a good violin in any shape or form whatever, and in replacing lost or broken portions it must be borne in mind that any departure from the original pattern or alteration to the original maker's idea of form or flow of line must on no account be done. It may be that the repairer's idea of line and form is quite distinct from that of the violin under repair, and it is not impossible that his idea may be the superior one, but that in no way justifies interference with the flow of line in any particular scroll or modelling. Each violin stands on its own merits as a work of art (or otherwise), and another conception of form superimposed on the first reduces the whole to meaningless nonentity. Therefore, in all repair work, the design, modelling and flow of line must be strictly adhered to.
5It is a comparatively simple repair to insert new
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