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An early
example of restoration was removing distortions and stabilising the
parquetry back of an anonymous baroque guitar in the Anne Macaulay
collection at Edinburgh University. This involved making a cast of
the distorted back, carving the distortions in the cast away to
continue the back curve, and pressing the back into shape on the
cast with hot sandbags. Luckily, the old sunken rose was missing,
and the work could be done through the open soundhole without
removing the soundboard, a process that invariably causes more
damage to fragile old structures.
Cinthius
Rotundus | Anon guitar |
Sellas | Rauwolf
| Langenwalder |
Railich | Minor
restorations
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