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Violins and other stringed instruments : how to make them ; with numerous engravings and diagrams, 1906

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1CHAPTER V.
3DOUBLE BASS VIOLIN, AND A VIOLONCELLO.
5This chapter will give drawings and sizes of a double bass violin. The proportions adopted by different makers vary a little, and are not so definitely fixed as the proportions of small violins; those given here were taken from instruments of the average size, sometimes called a three-quarter double bass.
7The number of strings is also a matter of taste, a good number of the old three-stringed basses having been altered to four strings, but the three-stringed instrument is still made.
9In order to save giving a multiplicity of figures and sizes, the diagrams here presented have been lined off in 1-in. squares. Front and side views of the double bass are shown by Figs. 74 and 75, whilst a diagram showing the position of the bass-bar, sound-holes, back-bars, blocks, corner blocks, and end blocks is presented by Fig. 76. In order to lay off the outline full size, take a large sheet of cardboard, or several joined together, or thin boards jointed up, and line it out in 1-in. squares, then follow the lines of the diagram through the corresponding squares on the board, which will give a full-sized working drawing.
11A half-model will be sufficient for the outline, as it can be reversed, which will ensure the outline being symmetrical. It is difficult to believe that Stradivarius made his outlines purposely unsymmetrical; if he did, his example should not be followed in this matter.
13The length of the string from where it leaves the nut to where it rests on the bridge is usually about 42 in. in this size of bass. If a full-sized orchestral bass is wanted this part of the string should measure 46 in., and all the

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