Show GIRL MAKES GOOD VIOLINS IN GOTHAM Talks About Her Art and nd How She Learned It t WATCHED FATHER FATHE IN N SHOP H P V MADE THINGS FOR HERSELF HERSELF FROM DISCARDED SCRAPS New York April 9 One of the tho th few women violin makers In the tha world has her workshop on the upper West Side She Sha is only 20 years y ars old a Hungarian by birth and alms t to bo be tho the possessor of a secret formula for making a certain kind of ot vio violin violin lin Un varnish tarnish to her by her father on his deathbed eI I spent most moat of my m time In my fath futh fathers fathers ers erB shop the girl said Bald the other day watching him work and making little things myself from the scraps of wood that ho discarded I soon developed Quito quite a turn for the work and when I was 12 13 years old made mado an Instrument In wholly by myself that was practically perfect In every detail We were then living at The Hague but when we moved to Budapest and my father opened open d a school for violin making I began a regular course of Instruction 1 I was first set to repairing broken In Instruments Instruments instruments was taught to put In new backs necks and tops and was taught to make the difficult F holes From re repairing repairIng repairing pairing I was taught to tor construct the entire instrument It takes much time and patience to tomake tomake tomake make a violin I 1 can tell you No matter mat matter matter ter If I work all day 1 I am one month making a 0 violin It is the tho varnishing that takes the time The finished In Instrument Instrument strument must be bo gone gono over Oer with the tho var six or seven times and rubbed down each time with pumice and oil A great deal of ot sunlight Is required for the tha var varnishing varnishing varnishing process That Is s why I have my m oho shop on the sunny side of the house I could could not make mako good OO violins In a dark and gloomy shop The next most difficult cult task In lotin v I construction Is to fashion the F holes the six blocks which are glued to the model are re very important It Is necessary that these theS be bo perfect and unless the tho base bar baris barIs baris is just the correct thickness much of oe o the sweetness of the will be bo lost Every piece of wood in the tho violin must bo be just the correct weight Voight size and thick thickness thickness ness varying according to the tho hardness of tine the wood It Is only by experience and find close observation that these little points so Important in violin making are learned The wood that the girl uses in making malting her Instruments comes from Hungary Her father tather brought hI It to America with witt him when he came over five years ears ago It is a variety of maple In which the grain is very dense He purchased It t When an old church in Budapest was torn tom down the pulpit being made of this thia wood He Ilse sawed It into blocks and brought it to America His Hia daughter has enough enouch ot or orthis this wood on hand to make about twenty five instruments It is more than years old and is of course thoroughly seasoned Tho The violin maker is a strong trong woman Her hands have hava been trained to do things It takes much strength to make violins she said If It I did no not have great strength in n my arms and hands I could not do the work |