How do they match: Musical Instrument Repairers and Tuners

  • Musical Instrument Repairers and Tuners

  • Instrument Builder
  • Instrument Repair Technician
  • Band Instrument Repair Technician
  • Band Instrument Repairer
  • Brass Instrument Repair Technician
  • Brass and Wind Instrument Repairer
  • Fabrication Technician
  • Fretted Instrument Repairer
  • Fretted String Instrument Repairer
  • Guitar Technician
  • Keyboard Instrument Repairer
  • Keyboard Instrument Tuner
  • Musical Instrument Mechanic
  • Percussion Instrument Repairer
  • Percussion Instrument Tuner
  • Piano Technician
  • Pipe Organ Technician
  • Player Piano Technician
  • Reed or Wind Instrument Repairer
  • Reed or Wind Instrument Tuner
  • Stringed Instrument Repairer
  • Stringed Instrument Tuner

  • Repair percussion, stringed, reed, or wind instruments. May specialize in one area, such as piano tuning.

  • Adjust string tensions to tune instruments, using hand tools and electronic tuning devices.
  • Align pads and keys on reed or wind instruments.
  • Assemble bars onto percussion instruments.
  • Clean, sand, and paint parts of percussion instruments to maintain their condition.
  • Compare instrument pitches with tuning tool pitches to tune instruments.
  • Cut out sections around cracks on percussion instruments to prevent cracks from advancing, using shears or grinding wheels.
  • Disassemble instruments and parts for repair and adjustment.
  • Inspect instruments to locate defects, and to determine their value or the level of restoration required.
  • Mix and measure glue that will be used for instrument repair.
  • Play instruments to evaluate their sound quality and to locate any defects.
  • Polish instruments, using rags and polishing compounds, buffing wheels, or burnishing tools.
  • Reassemble instruments following repair, using hand tools and power tools and glue, hair, yarn, resin, or clamps, and lubricate instruments as necessary.
  • Refinish instruments to protect and decorate them, using hand tools, buffing tools, and varnish.
  • Remove dents and burrs from metal instruments, using mallets and burnishing tools.
  • Remove material from bars of percussion instruments to obtain specified tones, using bandsaws, sanding machines, machine grinders, or hand files and scrapers.
  • Repair breaks in percussion instruments, such as drums and cymbals, using drill presses, power saws, glue, clamps, grinding wheels, or other hand tools.
  • Repair cracks in wood or metal instruments, using pinning wire, lathes, fillers, clamps, or soldering irons.
  • Repair or replace musical instrument parts and components, such as strings, bridges, felts, and keys, using hand and power tools.
  • Solder or weld frames of mallet instruments and metal drum parts.
  • Strike wood, fiberglass, or metal bars of instruments, and use tuned blocks, stroboscopes, or electronic tuners to evaluate tones made by instruments.
  • 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.
  • Wash metal instruments in lacquer-stripping and cyanide solutions to remove lacquer and tarnish.

  • Adjust tuning or functioning of musical instruments.