How do they match: Musical Instrument Repairers and Tuners

  • Musical Instrument Repairers and Tuners

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

  • Solder or weld frames of mallet instruments and metal drum parts.
  • Solder posts and parts to hold them in their proper places.
  • Adjust string tensions to tune instruments, using hand tools and electronic tuning devices.
  • Make wood replacement parts, using woodworking machines and hand tools.
  • Remove drumheads by removing tension rods with drum keys and cutting tools.
  • Remove material from bars of percussion instruments to obtain specified tones, using bandsaws, sanding machines, machine grinders, or hand files and scrapers.
  • 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.
  • String instruments, and adjust trusses and bridges of instruments to obtain specified string tensions and heights.
  • Test tubes and pickups in electronic amplifier units, and solder parts and connections as necessary.

  • Operate welding equipment.
  • Solder parts or connections between parts.
  • Align equipment or machinery.
  • Assemble mechanical components or machine parts.