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Violin making and repairing, 1927
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1CHAPTER IV
3The Belly and Bass-Bar: Assembling the Body
5When the back is satisfactorily finished put it carefully away until the belly is made. The archings and rises for this plate will be given on the purchased diagram. Rough templates reduced are given in Fig. 19.
7Modelling the Belly.—The cutting and modelling of the belly is executed in the same manner as the back, but one precaution is necessary. The belly is constructed from very tender soft-grained stuff, and the tools must be ground and sharpened to a long, keen edge in every case. The toothed plane must be used frequently, and great care must be taken to avoid splitting off the corners, or going below the proper depth when gouging out the inside. Thickness to 1/8 in. final all over obtaining the note C, and thickness slightly less from the centre of the belly to the edges, but only slightly
9A few remarks must be made on this question of thickening the plate, which is an extremely important one in the art of violin building. If the position of the bridge and soundpost in the finished instrument is imagined as being the starting-points, so to speak (at any rate, so far as the plates are concerned), of vibration, it will be readily understood that vibration is strongest at these points.
11As the vibrations travel outwards to the edges of
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