The Violin Maker, A Search for the Secrets of Craftsmanship, Sound, and Stradivari.pdf

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The Violin Maker
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FRONTISPIECE TK
peg
peg box
neck
fingerboard
strings
top
(belly)
ribs
purfling
sound post
(inside)
f-hole
bridge
bass bar
tailpiece
end pin
or button
Based on a model of Antonio Stradivari’s, circa 1715.
Drawing by Sam Zygmuntowicz.
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Violin
Maker
A Search for the Secrets
of Craftsmanship, Sound,
and Stradivari
John Marchese
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To four people who helped in so many ways
to make it possible for me to write any book, but who
didn’t get to see this one:
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John Marchese
Rosemary Marchese
Santino Marchese
Phyllis Marchese
Contents
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1
The Magical Box
1
2
The Luthier
9
3
The Old Guy
27
4
The Violinist
39
5
The Singing Tree
53
6
Tradition and the Individual Talent
63
7
Bach and the Problem with Words
83
8
Caring More and More About
Less and Less
101
9
What Do We Really Know?
125
10
We Go to Cremona
143
11
Varnishes and Very Curious Secrets
169
12
Delivery
187
13
What You Hear Under Your Ear
193
14
Coda
205
217
221
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