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LTHOUGH many valuable and interesting works have been written on the manufacture, repair, adjustment, music and technique of the violin, very few writers have attempted to deal, even in the most elementary fashion, with the important and absorbing subject of varnishing.

Varnish, from the earliest history of the art, has always been an essential element in the manufacture of the violin, and the famous craftsmen of the past whose instruments are to-day so highly valued for the beauty and