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Setting and removing your sound post

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Fiddlerman

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July 30, 2019 - 3:02 pm

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Nice video. Thanks.

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July 31, 2019 - 11:39 am

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You're welcome. I enjoyed doing the video inside the violin thing. 😁

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Nice video. The sound post setter has a guide to help determine sound post position. It is a wire projection covered in black plastic.

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Great video. You make it look so easy. I wish I saw this back when I was working on my old german violin.

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Irv said
Nice video. The sound post setter has a guide to help determine sound post position. It is a wire projection covered in black plastic.

Thanks and yes, you are right about the guide.

Thank you Gry Hege.

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Thanks, Pierre, I'll be using this video when I start playing around with my $50 fiddle.

What equipment did you use to video inside the violin?

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@gordon stumway and others. He likely opened the back of a vso with a band saw. After that procedure, just about any video equipment would be adequate.

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Fiddlerman

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Good guess Irv.

Actually I did it in separate takes. We found a very skinny usb camera from a Chinese source about 5 years ago. It has a light on the end and is about 3/16 inches wide. I drilled a hole in an endpin and stuck the camera in the endpin hole. Also put a cellphone on top of the f-hole for additional light.

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