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Scan 46
Violin making and repairing, 1927
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1edges of the back, leaving the edges of the corners and the button untouched.
3Attuning Plates.—The back, when finished, should answer to the note D. It will be found in practice that there are various notes emitted from the hollowed plates of a violin when tapped with the knuckle of the hand. The usual method of finding the note of the plate is as follows: Protecting the button of the violin from injury by two strips of wood, one on each side, clamp it firmly in the vice, allowing it to touch nothing except where the vice holds it. Now at the inner bout draw a well-resined fiddle-bow firmly along the edge. The plate will give out a sonorous note varying in pitch with its thickness and to some extent its density. The thicknesses given in the instructions on gouging the inside will be found, generally speaking, to produce the note D; but it is as well when thicknessing to test the plate from time to time by the bowing method, until the right note is obtained, always bearing in mind that the thickest part of the back must be left in the centre, gradually thinning out towards the edges, without any suspicion of a departure from even tapering. This must be proved, as stated above, by means of the callipers.
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