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Violins and other stringed instruments : how to make them ; with numerous engravings and diagrams, 1906
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1but should be about 1/8 in. higher than the place at which a line along the top of the finger-board would terminate if extended to the bridge. The bridge will also need to be made a trifle thinner towards the top. Make four very shallow grooves with the file for the strings to lie in. Fasten a piece of strong gut into the tail-piece, of such length that when the loop is placed in the groove of the end pin the tail-piece is brought close to the bottom nut or rest.
3The sound-post should now be set in position; but, as remarked in the earlier part, there may be some difficulty in deciding which is the best place for it, and this can only be tested when the instrument is strung up. This can now be done. First, put the fourth or G string in the left-hand slit of the tail-piece, and through the peg nearest the finger-board; the first or E string is the next in order, then the third; and lastly the second string. Whilst the strings are quite slack, set the bridge in position, and screw the strings steadily up to pitch, alternately fourth and first, second and third, meanwhile observing that the bridge does not pull forward. Then the tone can be tried.
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