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The Repairing & Restoration of Violins 'The Strad' Library, No. XII. By: Horace Petherick (1839-1919) |
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PRINTED BY E. SHORE & CO.,
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
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 the Bridge Height of Latter, and Reason for It . . . 58 CHAPTER VII. Finishing the Fingerboard Fixing the Nut Size
and Position of Grooves for the Strings Filing Down the
Graft Smoothing, Colouring, and Varnishing Same . . . . 84 CHAPTER VIII. Injuries that can be Repaired from the Outside
Insertion of Fresh Wood in Fracture of the Ribs The
Effects of Climate on the Glue in Violins . . . . . . . . 92 CHAPTER IX. 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 Securing Loose Lower Rib to End Block
Different Methods Treatment of Worm holes Fixing on
Graft on Neck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 CHAPTER X. Ways of Removing the Upper Table and the Neck
Cleansing the Interior Preservation of the Original
Label Closing of Cracks in Upper Table . . . . . . . . . 114 CHAPTER XI. Getting Parts Together that apparently do not
Fit The use of Benzine or Turpentine Treatment of
Warped or Twisted Lower Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 CHAPTER XII. Removal of Old Superfluous Glue by Damping
Replacing Old End Blocks by New Ones Temporary Beams
and Joists Inside for Keeping Ribs, etc., in Position
while Freshly Glued . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 CHAPTER XIII. Re opening the Back to Correct the Badly
Repaired Joint A Few Words on Studs Filling Up Spaces
left by Lost Splinters Matching Wood for Large Cracks,
etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 CHAPTER XIV. Repairing Lost Portions Margins of Sound Holes
Matching the Grain Fixing and Finishing Off Replacing
with Fresh Wood Large Portions of Upper Table Lost Parts
of Purfling Restoring It with Old Stuff . . . . . . . . 155 CHAPTER XV. Repairs to Purfling (continued) Filling up an
Opening Extending to the Whole Length of the Violin
Fitting the Core Fixing it in Position and Retaining it
There Finishing the Surface ... Continue reading book >>
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