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Station Videos:

Video 1 - Using a Micrometer
Run time: 6:23

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Video 2 - Making Good Tuning Pin Coils
Run time: 5:57

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Video 3 - Grand Aftertouch
Run time: 5:39

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Video 4 - Grand Hammer Travel
Run time: 3:27

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Video 5 - Vertical Hammer Alignment
Run time: 5:38

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Video 6 - Making a Key Bushing
Run time: 8:00

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Video 7 - Bending Wire
Run time: 5:42

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Video 8 - String Splice
Run time: 5:37

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Video 09 - Vertical Jack Aftertouch

"Upright Jack Movement: An Inside View". Piano Technicians Guild, 2020.
Run time: 4:22

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Video 10 - Making Hitch Pin Loops & Installing a Single String

Run time: 2:22

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Video 11 - Grand Damper Alignment
Run time: 4:37

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Video 12 - Vertical Damper Alignment

Run time: 7:19

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Video 13 - Measuring Bass Strings

Run time: 2:46

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Video 14 - Repinning a Grand Hammer Assembly

Run time: 8:59

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Removing Broken Vertical Hammer Shank-Only available as video

Run time: 2:22

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