How do they match: Musical Instrument Repairers and Tuners

  • Musical Instrument Repairers and Tuners

  • Brass and Wind Instrument Repairer
  • Pipe Organ Tuner and Repairer

  • Cut new drumheads from animal skins, using scissors, and soak drumheads in water to make them pliable.
  • Cut out sections around cracks on percussion instruments to prevent cracks from advancing, using shears or grinding wheels.
  • Solder or weld frames of mallet instruments and metal drum parts.
  • Solder posts and parts to hold them in their proper places.
  • Remove drumheads by removing tension rods with drum keys and cutting tools.
  • Repair cracks in wood or metal instruments, using pinning wire, lathes, fillers, clamps, or soldering irons.
  • Shape old parts and replacement parts to improve tone or intonation, using hand tools, lathes, or soldering irons.
  • Test tubes and pickups in electronic amplifier units, and solder parts and connections as necessary.

  • Cut materials according to specifications or needs.
  • Solder parts or connections between parts.
  • Operate welding equipment.