How do they match: Musical Instrument Repairers and Tuners

  • Assemble bars onto percussion instruments.
  • File metal reeds until their pitches correspond with standard tuning bar pitches.
  • Remove material from bars of percussion instruments to obtain specified tones, using bandsaws, sanding machines, machine grinders, or hand files and scrapers.
  • Replace xylophone bars and wheels.
  • Strike wood, fiberglass, or metal bars of instruments, and use tuned blocks, stroboscopes, or electronic tuners to evaluate tones made by instruments.