How do they match: Musical Instrument Repairers and Tuners

  • Remove dents and burrs from metal instruments, using mallets and burnishing tools.
  • Remove drumheads by removing tension rods with drum keys and cutting tools.
  • Remove irregularities from tuning pins, strings, and hammers of pianos, using wood blocks or filing tools.
  • Remove material from bars of percussion instruments to obtain specified tones, using bandsaws, sanding machines, machine grinders, or hand files and scrapers.
  • Wash metal instruments in lacquer-stripping and cyanide solutions to remove lacquer and tarnish.

  • Remove dents from equipment, materials, tools or structures.
  • Remove parts or components from equipment.