soundholes

In one word, you must always _create_, no matter what work you are engaged upon, and, in this case, two as original soundholes as lies in your power, and resembling each other as much as you can cut them, but -- cut by an artist.

Violin Making 'The Strad' Library, No. IX. 1869

Get a fair dip of varnish in your brush, but NEVER flood it; and beginning carefully under the fingerboard, first one side, then the other, working the top sides of the instrument also alternately, until the soundholes be reached, when inside these cuts must be neatly coloured, after which you just tip your brush with the varnish, neatly continuing where you leave off, so that none can see a break in your progress.

Violin Making 'The Strad' Library, No. IX. 1869

Most viols have C-shaped soundholes and a flat back.

small dead animals 2010

Most viols have C-shaped soundholes and a flat back.

small dead animals 2010

And at night just work on finger strength, scales, ffCp etc. with muffling in the soundholes and / or the

Mandolin Cafe News 2009

They look like guitars without soundholes but they have eight strings, EQs too ...

Mandolin Cafe News 2009

And at night just work on finger strength, scales, ffCp etc. with muffling in the soundholes and / or the

Mandolin Cafe News 2009

If Gibson wanted to do something similar and use the wood cut out of A models for soundholes, how cool would that be?

Mandolin Cafe News 2009

And at night just work on finger strength, scales, ffCp etc. with muffling in the soundholes and / or the "acoustic cubbyhole" idea.

Mandolin Cafe News 2009

And at night just work on finger strength, scales, ffCp etc. with muffling in the soundholes and / or the "acoustic cubbyhole" idea.

Mandolin Cafe News 2009