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FRETTED-INSTRUMENT REPAIRER

Specialty Definition: FRETTED-INSTRUMENT REPAIRER

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Occupations

Repairs fretted musical instruments, such as banjos, guitars, mandolins, and ukuleles, using handtools: Inspects and plays instrument to determine defects. Disassembles instrument, using handtools. Removes, replaces, and dresses (levels) frets, using handtools. Fits wood and metal replacement parts. Reassembles and strings instrument. Adjusts truss rod and bridge to position neck and strings. Plays notes and chords and adjusts string tension to tune instrument. Replaces skin or plastic heads of banjos. Tests and replaces tubes, replaces defective parts, and solders new parts and loose connections on amplifiers, reverberation units, and pickups of electrically amplified instruments. May repair wood bodies or carve wood replacement parts. May be designated according to instrument repaired as Guitar Repairer (any industry). (references)

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

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Alternative Orthography: FRETTED-INSTRUMENT REPAIRER


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

46 52 45 54 54 45 44 2D 49 4E 53 54 52 55 4D 45 4E 54      52 45 50 41 49 52 45 52

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

    

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

01000110 01010010 01000101 01010100 01010100 01000101 01000100 00101101 01001001 01001110 01010011 01010100 01010010 01010101 01001101 01000101 01001110 01010100 00100000 01010010 01000101 01010000 01000001 01001001 01010010 01000101 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#82 &#69 &#84 &#84 &#69 &#68 &#45 &#73 &#78 &#83 &#84 &#82 &#85 &#77 &#69 &#78 &#84 &#32 &#82 &#69 &#80 &#65 &#73 &#82 &#69 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0052 0045 0054 0054 0045 0044 002D 0049 004E 0053 0054 0052 0055 004D 0045 004E 0054      0052 0045 0050 0041 0049 0052 0045 0052

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

40523954543938154348535452554739485425239503543523952

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