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‘Through how many hands an instrument has to pass’ - From the archive: December 1904

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Felix Herrmann reports on the violin making methods of Markneukirchen, and how the work is divided up among the neighbouring villages

The body-makers of Schönbach do the first part of the work; and by body is meant the primitive form of the violin, with the belly off, not glued on. These bodies pass into the hands of the violin makers, and their first task is to work them, the backs as well as the bellies, to the correct thicknesses according to their theories. Then they fit in the bass bar and cut the soundholes with the so-called “schnitzer,”…

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