String Instrument Maintenance and Repair: Fundamental Skills for the Classroom Teacher
My ORCA project was to study, practice, and teach string instrument maintenance and repair. The repairs that I learned were: closing and opening seams;; closing cracks in various parts of the instrument;; bridge and sound post alignment and placement;; neck and fingerboard adjustment;; nut and saddl...
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BYU ScholarsArchive
2018
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| Online Access: | https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/jur/vol2018/iss1/93 https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/context/jur/article/1293/viewcontent/auto_convert.pdf |
| Summary: | My ORCA project was to study, practice, and teach string instrument maintenance and repair. The repairs that I learned were: closing and opening seams;; closing cracks in various parts of the instrument;; bridge and sound post alignment and placement;; neck and fingerboard adjustment;; nut and saddle raising and replacing;; peg alteration and replacement;; cleaning and polishing instruments. Because there is such a need for inexpensive timely repair in an orchestra classroom, it was crucial that I not only learn these basic repairs myself, but assist local orchestra teachers with their repair needs, and teach fellow future teachers. |
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