How do they match: Musical Instrument Repairers and Tuners

  • Cut new drumheads from animal skins, using scissors, and soak drumheads in water to make them pliable.
  • Refinish and polish piano cabinets or cases to prepare them for sale.
  • Refinish instruments to protect and decorate them, using hand tools, buffing tools, and varnish.
  • Solder posts and parts to hold them in their proper places.
  • Stretch drumheads over rim hoops and tuck them around and under the hoops, using hand tucking tools.

  • Clean equipment, parts, or tools to repair or maintain them in good working order.