Queen Silvia is impressed by the diabase surface.

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Inspired, methodical, the sculptor worked on his violin, section by section. When it was time to make the back plate, the material from the headstone had been used up, and Lars had to go out himself and cut a block of Härjedalen rock, a beautiful porphyry resembling diabase, black with pale flecks. It is of this stone that the back of the violin is made.

Widenfalk was now ready with the three parts that comprise the corpus of the violin, its interior surface finished with real gold so as to produce the finest possible tone. Precision bonding of the parts was done using two components of glue and the neck secured with two silver steel pins pins where it was joined to the body. This was the base material and the basic structure.

But before the music of the Earth could be heard, it was necessary to have recourse also to material from the other two "kingdoms": animal and vegetable. The finger board, pegs, tailpiece, and chin-rest were of course all made of the traditional black ebony. In order to ensure that the pegs would fit perfectly and not slip, Lars had to construct conical drills, since the pegs themselves are conical and are tightened to produce the right pitch.

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