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

Author: Horace Petherick

Release Date: October 11, 2008 [EBook #26878]

Language: English

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THE REPAIRING & RESTORATION OF VIOLINS.

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3, GREEN TERRACE, ROSEBERY AVENUE, LONDON, E.C.

[Frontispiece: HORACE PETHERICK.]

_"THE STRAD" LIBRARY, No. XII._
THE REPAIRING & RESTORATION OF VIOLINS.

BY
HORACE PETHERICK.

_Of the Music Jury, International Inventions Exhibition South
Kensington, 1885; International Exhibition Edinburgh, 1890; Expert in
Law Courts, 1891; Vice-President of the Cremona Society_.

ILLUSTRATED BY THE AUTHOR.

London:
THE STRAD OFFICE, 3, GREEN TERRACE, ROSEBERY AVENUE, E.C.
D. R. DUNCAN, 186, FLEET STREET, E.C.

New York:
CHARLES SCRIBNERS' SONS, 153-157, FIFTH AVENUE

1903.

CONTENTS.

PAGE
CHAPTER I.--Introductory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

CHAPTER II.--Slight Accidents--Modern Restorers--"Chattering"--
The Proper Sort of Glue--Its Preparation and Use . . . . 3

CHAPTER III.--Minor Repairs--Cramps and Joints--Violin Cases--
Rattles and Jars--Loose Fingerboards--Atmospheric
Temperature--Old-Fashioned Methods of Repairing--Modern
Ways--A Loose Nut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

CHAPTER IV.--Injuries to the Head or Scroll--Insertion of Fresh
Wood--Colouring of White Wood--Separation of Head from
Peg-box and Re-joining--Stopping Material for Small Holes
or Fractures--The Peg-box Cracked by Pressure . . . . . . 28

CHAPTER V.--Fracture of Peg-box and Shell--Chips from this
Part--Filling up of Same--Restoration to Original Form,
after Parts have been Lost--Worn Peg-holes, Re-filling or
Boring Same . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

CHAPTER VI.--Loosening of Junction of Graft with Peg-box, and