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Violins and other stringed instruments : how to make them ; with numerous engravings and diagrams, 1906
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1INDEX.
3Violin, Materials for Making,
4 9–29
5 — Moulds, 30–40
6 — Inside, 39–40
7 — Outside, 30
8 — Stradivarius, 39
9 — Testing, 37
10 — Neck, 68–62
11 — Peg Holes, Cutting, 62
12 — Purfling, 12–15
13 — Waist of, 48–19
14 — Rib Stops, Bending, 42–43
15 — Ribs, Attaching to Back, 50–51
16 — Bending, 14–43–45
17 — Fixing, 57
18 — Scroll, 58–62
19 — Carving, 10–11
20 — Sound-holes, 54
21 — Sound-post, 12–70
22 — Stradivarius, 9–41
23 — Staining, 66
24 — Tools for Making, 15–29
25 — Varnish, 66
26 — Removing, 68
27 — Varnishing, 64–70
28Violoncello, 74–76
29 — Bass-bar, 75–76
30 — Bridge, 75
31 — Wood for, 75
32Waist of Violin, Purfling, 48–40
33Wood for Violins, 10–11
34Woodcarvers' Screws, 16
35Zither, 117–140
36 — Arion, 133–134
37 — Bridge, 125
38 — Case for, 139
39 — Concert, 117
40 — Elégie, 117
41 — Fastening Frets in, 126
42 — Fingerboard, 126–128
43 — Harp, 139–135
44 — Inserting Hitch-pins in, 128–129
45 — Philomela, 135–137
46 — Plectrum, 139–140
47 — Prince of Wales' Harp, 133–139
48 — Ribs, 122
49 — Sounding Table for, 139
50 — Stretch, 117–135–136
51 — Strings, 129
52 — Stringing, Choice of, 131–132
53 — Cost of, 129
54 — Stuttgart Method of Stringing, 129
55 — Tuning, 132
56 — Viennese Method of Stringing, 129–135
57Zither Viola, 134–135
59Tools for Making Violins, 15–29
60Tuning Dulcimer, 154–155
61 — Zither, 132
62Varnish, Amber, 67
63 — Oil, 68
64 — Removing, 68
65 — Varnishing Violins, 66
66Varnishing Violin, 64–70
67Viennese Method of Stringing
68 — Zither, 129–133
69Viola, Zither, 134–15
70Violin, Aged Appearance to, 63
71 — Back, "Trueling up," 42
72 — Wood for, 10
73 — Bass-bar, 12–56
74 — Belly, 56–58
75 — Wood or, 10
76 — Bridge, Fitting, 69
77 — Cremonese, 9
78 — Double Bass (see Double Bass Violin)
79 — Finger-board, 62
80 — Glue for, 13
81 — Japanese (see Japanese)
82 — Making, 41–63
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