How do they match: Musical Instrument Repairers and Tuners

  • Adjust felt hammers on pianos to increase tonal mellowness or brilliance, using sanding paddles, lacquer, or needles.
  • Clean, sand, and paint parts of percussion instruments to maintain their condition.
  • Remove material from bars of percussion instruments to obtain specified tones, using bandsaws, sanding machines, machine grinders, or hand files and scrapers.