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The Repairing and Restoration of Violins

by Horace Petherick

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  1. 1Preface
  2. 2Chapter I — Introductory
  3. 3Chapter II — Slight Accidents — Modern Restorers — “Chattering” — T…
  4. 4Chapter III — Minor Repairs…
  5. 5Chapter IV — Injuries to the Head or Scroll…
  6. 6Chapter V — Fracture of Peg-Box and Shell…
  7. 7Chapter VI — Loosening of Junction of Graft With Peg-Box, and Refix…
  8. 8Chapter VII — Finishing the Fingerboard…
  9. 9Chapter VIII — Injuries That Can Be Repaired From the Outside — Ins…
  10. 10Chapter IX — The Glue Used by the Early Italian Makers…
  11. 11Chapter X — Ways of Removing the Upper Table and the Neck…
  12. 12Chapter XI — Getting Parts Together That Apparently Do Not Fit — Th…
  13. 13Chapter XII — Removal of Old Superfluous Glue by Damping…
  14. 14Chapter XIII — Re-Opening the Back to Correct the Badly Repaired Jo…
  15. 15Chapter XIV — Repairing Lost Portions…
  16. 16Chapter XV — Repairs to Purfling (Continued)…
  17. 17Chapter XVI
  18. 18Chapter XVII — Insertion of Studs Along the Joint Inside Without Op…
  19. 19Chapter XVIII — The Bar in Olden Times…

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