How do they match: Musical Instrument Repairers and Tuners

  • Make wood replacement parts, using woodworking machines and hand tools.
  • Remove material from bars of percussion instruments to obtain specified tones, using bandsaws, sanding machines, machine grinders, or hand files and scrapers.
  • Strike wood, fiberglass, or metal bars of instruments, and use tuned blocks, stroboscopes, or electronic tuners to evaluate tones made by instruments.

  • Assemble mechanical components or machine parts.