How do they match: Musical Instrument Repairers and Tuners

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

  • Remove material from bars of percussion instruments to obtain specified tones, using bandsaws, sanding machines, machine grinders, or hand files and scrapers.
  • String instruments, and adjust trusses and bridges of instruments to obtain specified string tensions and heights.

  • Cut materials according to specifications or needs.