0:00 - Description of violin making from beginning to end; use of spruce and maple
-Use maple to make the back, ribs, and head
-Spruce is top and usually made with 2 pieces. Back can be made with either 1 or 2 pieces

3:06 - Making the curve--checking frequency; measurements of ever cut of wood; resonant tones/making wood sound
-use of hot iron; neck and end block; carving scroll and cutting neck. All by hand
-fingerboard, pegs, and older tailpieces made of ebony 'la touche'/Tailpiece made of airplane metal makes it light
-making his own varnish, Joseph Michaelman
-he can't say how long it takes to make a violin, because he does it when he's not cutting hair or fixing violins, "au temps perdu."
-2.5 months to cut the wood. 1.5 years to make a violin

6:42 - Invented machine to degrossir (thin) wood. Don Montoucet did his welding. It's hidden under a sheet
-Concept of machine from Carr's machine, but not exactly same
-Albert H. Carr--professional violin maker, professional musician and violin appraiser from Albuquerque met in 1967

8:45 - Visiting Carr. First time talking to a real violin maker

11:27 - Carr made 1.5 million bows during WWII at a factory in Independence, Missouri
-Quit mass production because he didn't couldn't compete with prices of other makers
-special order from $100/150 a bow and $1,000 a violin, some maybe more; childhood dream of violin making full-time
-dreamed of making violins before he dreamed of playing