The Repairing & Restoration of Violins 'The Strad' Library, No. XII.

LOOSENING OF JUNCTION OF GRAFT WITH PEG-BOX, AND REFIXING SAME--GRAFTING, DIFFERENT METHODS OF PERFORMING THIS--LENGTHENING THE NECK--OLD AND MODERN METHOD--RENEWAL OF SAME--INC...

Much false reasoning upon insufficient premises has at times on and off been bestowed upon the subject of the bar and its supposed mysteries. Space at command will not allow of...

Leaving this part now, we can turn our attention for a time to reparation of injury to the head or scroll. This interesting and often highly artistic part of the general structu...

THE GLUE USED BY THE EARLY ITALIAN MAKERS--INSERTION OF PIECES OF WOOD FOR REPAIRING LOST PARTS--REPLACING LOST RIB AND REPAIRING INTERIOR WITHOUT OPENING WHEN POSSIBLE--SECURIN...

The professional repairer is of course always provided with the well known wooden screw cramps as used in all countries for centuries, but if "up to date" men, they will have af...

I recollect many years back, when in company with a violinist of some note, we were talking over various details in connection with the reparation and regulation of violins of a...

We may now take another degree lower down and study the treatment best for a fracture similar to that last described, but which, if at one of the lower peg-holes, may appear qui...

Regarding the glueing and closing up process, we will defer the matter for the present. While the assistant is going through the necessary routine in connection with that most i...

To the workroom we will again return. The back has had ample time to dry while the assistant James has been doing other work of an ordinary or trifling character. The loops or c...

Under the above title (dry and unpalatable as the subject may seem at first sight to many) it is proposed to bring before the reader some deductions from observations in general...

REPAIRING UNDERTAKEN BY PEOPLE IN BUSINESS NOT CONNECTED WITH THAT OF BOWED INSTRUMENTS--REMOVAL OF A FIXED SOUND POST--FITTING A FRESH PART OF WORM-EATEN RIB--BRINGING TOGETHER...

We may now take this portion of the work as finished and turn to the consideration of repairs of fractures or filling up of parts last. It is early yet to think of opening the i...

"We will now," says the chief, "have a look at that old Brescian violin that I bought last week, it is in that set of drawers by the bench there, the third from the top." The as...

We now turn our attention to the finish of the fingerboard, which must have its sides attended to for appearing in good trim. For making a nicely worked surface each side, some...

As the repairing now under consideration is of a kind requiring not only skill, but experience in the handling of the tools and necessary appliances connected therewith, we will...

Many old Italian violins bear indications of the haste of the maker to get the purfling done, and so without the delay of any intermediary process the purfling has been pressed...

At the appointed time, not any earlier, the amateur makes his appearance, inquiring somewhat anxiously as to whether the violin was finished, or more precisely speaking from fea...

The art of the old liutaro of Italy may be said to have become during the last two or three centuries, identified with the art of constructing such musical instruments as are pl...

An ancient writer once asserted that "of making many books there is no end"; had the violin been invented and used as far back as his day he might have added, "and of repairs to...

Insertion of Pieces of Wood for Repairing Lost Parts-- Replacing Lost Rib and Repairing Interior without Opening when Possible--Securing Loose Lower Rib to End Block-- Different...

Refixing Same--Grafting, Different Methods of Performing this--Lengthening the Neck--Old and Modern Method--Renewal of Same--Inclination of Neck and Fingerboard with Regard to t...

connected with that of Bowed Instruments--Removal of a Fixed Sound Post--Fitting a Fresh Part of Worm-Eaten Rib-- Bringing Together the Loosened Joint of the Back Without Openin...