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ACCORDION REPAIRER

Specialty Definition: ACCORDION REPAIRER

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Occupations

Repairs and tunes accordions and concertinas, using handtools: Disassembles instrument and parts, such as base and treble mechanisms, bellows, reed blocks, and manuals (keyboards), using handtools. Moves parts, observing their action to detect defects. Files, realigns, and adjusts parts, using handtools. Recovers bellows with sateen and cloth. Glues leather on corners of bellows. Operates woodworking machines and uses handtools to make wood replacement parts. Repairs cracks in celluloid. Solders or removes and replaces defective metal parts. Reassembles instrument and plays notes and chords to determine accuracy of repair. May tune accordion or concertina reeds [ACCORDION TUNER (any industry)]. May repair electronic accordions, using electronic testing equipment, to determine defects and to verify repairs. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: ACCORDION REPAIRER


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 43 43 4F 52 44 49 4F 4E      52 45 50 41 49 52 45 52

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01000011 01000011 01001111 01010010 01000100 01001001 01001111 01001110 00100000 01010010 01000101 01010000 01000001 01001001 01010010 01000101 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#67 &#67 &#79 &#82 &#68 &#73 &#79 &#78 &#32 &#82 &#69 &#80 &#65 &#73 &#82 &#69 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0043 0043 004F 0052 0044 0049 004F 004E      0052 0045 0050 0041 0049 0052 0045 0052

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

35373749523843494825239503543523952

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