Changing Soundpost for Violin?

Question

My violin teacher told me to rehair my bow, change my strings, change my bridge, and change my sound post. How would a professional change it without breaking the violin?

Answer 1

Take your violin and bow to a qualified repair person and let them do all of those things.

Changing the strings and bridge is simple, changing or resetting the soundpost is done with a special tool that is inserted into the F-hole on the treble side of the fiddle.  

Answer 2

You should have all of that done by a luthier.  For setting a soundpost, they have a little tool called a soundpost setter.  See:

http://beststudentviolins.com/StringCare...