txtCommentary=The maker of this {\uldb violin}{\v 105626}, Matteo Gofriller (a leading Venetian maker of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries), selected maple with the same striping for the sides and back. Maple with this rippling pattern is very difficult to plane and bend without breaking. The pattern on the sides, or ribs, on the right-hand piece lean the opposite way from those on the left. Gofriller may have chosen this
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txtCommentary1=\par construction both for its appearance and because he believed it gave the {\uldb instrument}{\v 84565} greater\par strength. {\fs24\uldb\'80}{\v next}