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    The three sentences summarize the key points about how violins are made from various animal parts on a "violin farm": 1) Violins are made from sycamore wood for the body, sheep gut strings, and horse hair for the bow. 2) Specific animal parts are used - sycamore trees are felled and shaped, sheep guts are twisted and tightened, and horse tail hairs are attached to rods. 3) The rest of the raw materials, including the horse if it is unhealthy, are used to make glue to assemble the finished violin.

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    The three sentences summarize the key points about how violins are made from various animal parts on a "violin farm": 1) Violins are made from sycamore wood for the body, sheep gut strings, and horse hair for the bow. 2) Specific animal parts are used - sycamore trees are felled and shaped, sheep guts are twisted and tightened, and horse tail hairs are attached to rods. 3) The rest of the raw materials, including the horse if it is unhealthy, are used to make glue to assemble the finished violin.

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    The three sentences summarize the key points about how violins are made from various animal parts on a "violin farm": 1) Violins are made from sycamore wood for the body, sheep gut strings, and horse hair for the bow. 2) Specific animal parts are used - sycamore trees are felled and shaped, sheep guts are twisted and tightened, and horse tail hairs are attached to rods. 3) The rest of the raw materials, including the horse if it is unhealthy, are used to make glue to assemble the finished violin.

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    VIOLIN FARM A sycamore tree cannot mimic the lark A sycamore's tree's unaccompanied bark Is silent until the

    e tree's finally felled, Seasoned and shaped and then lovingly held Beneath a Korean or Hungarian chin. For sycamore's what makes a great violin. A sheep cannot sing the song of a sheep Would shatter a goblet or rouse you from sleep. But the guts of a sheep, when the sheep's passed away Can be twisted and tightened and tuned to an `A'. So what started off filling up a sheep's middle Ends up as strings on the sycamore fiddle. A horse cannot play you a musical scale But if you sneak up and you shorten his tail The hairs, when attached to a suitable rod, Can play the sheep's guts like the song of a God. The rest of the horse, if it's under the weather Is boiled up to glue the whole thing together. So if you should pass by a meadow or lea Where a sheep is grazes next to a sycamore tree, And yonder a horse canters, tail in the air You'll know the true meaning beneath what lies there. You can say to the kids, with a wave of your arm, "What you see over there is a violin farm".

    RICHARD STILGOE

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