The boy's own book of indoor games and recreations : a popular encyclopædia for boys (1890)
Stables, Gordon, 1840-1910, Hutchison, George Andrew, 1841-1913 · Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott · leaf 427
ogether, havinga length equal to that of the width of the window for which it is destined, a depth offour or five inches, and a breadth of five or six inches. The wood of which it ismade is carefully planed on both sides, and is not over an eighth of an inch in thick-ness, and the joints are as… … Fig. I. elm, and are glued on to the face of the sounding-case. They are about half aninch high and a quarter of an inch thick. The strings are of catgut tightened bypegs screwed into the edges of the case, which are occasionally strengthened for thepurpose by a thin fillet of beech. The strings…
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