Definition of "violin-making" []

• The process, trade, or art of making violins and similar instruments. It includes many details, such as the selection and preparation of materials, the making and manipulation of patterns, the shaping and fitting of parts, and the application of carving, purfling, and varnish. It reached its perfection in northern Italy about 1700. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Students of the northern Italian masters of violin-making took the art south to Naples, where they applied it to the indigenous guitar and mandolin."
• "Today each these artisanal activities continues, some using pre-Hispanic techniques, some using mestizo techniques (a blend of pre-Hispanic methods complemented by those introduced by Europeans during the Colonial era), and others using modern-day methods such as high-temperature firing and violin-making."
• ""What are we to make of the presence of a book on violin-making," he asks, or of Wilde's copy of a "history of the study of music in Germany or his guide to the art of mixing American cocktails?""