purifying

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RUPPERT, FRANCIS, Erfruth, made some excellent instruments of a very flat model, but generally omitted the linings and corner blocks as well us the purfling.

From Violins and Violin Makers Biographical Dictionary of the Great Italian Artistes, their Followers and Imitators, to the present time. With Essays on Important Subjects Connected with the Violin. by Pearce, J. H. (Joseph Henry)

Whalebone purfling has been frequently used, particularly by the old Amsterdam makers.

From The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators by Hart, George

One authority we have consulted calls this maker a pupil of Amati, and states that he used whalebone purfling.

From Violins and Violin Makers Biographical Dictionary of the Great Italian Artistes, their Followers and Imitators, to the present time. With Essays on Important Subjects Connected with the Violin. by Pearce, J. H. (Joseph Henry)

The sound holes straight and large, well cut and parallel, and double purfling.

From Violins and Violin Makers Biographical Dictionary of the Great Italian Artistes, their Followers and Imitators, to the present time. With Essays on Important Subjects Connected with the Violin. by Pearce, J. H. (Joseph Henry)

Another detail of the workmanship always attended to by the master himself, was that of the purfling.

From Antonio Stradivari by Petherick, Horace William