How do they match: Musical Instrument Repairers and Tuners

  • Musical Instrument Repairers and Tuners

  • Metal Reed Tuner
  • Brass and Wind Instrument Repairer
  • Pipe Organ Tuner and Repairer

  • Adjust string tensions to tune instruments, using hand tools and electronic tuning devices.
  • Compare instrument pitches with tuning tool pitches to tune instruments.
  • Make wood replacement parts, using woodworking machines and hand tools.
  • 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 drumheads by removing tension rods with drum keys and cutting tools.
  • Remove irregularities from tuning pins, strings, and hammers of pianos, using wood blocks or filing tools.
  • 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.
  • Shape old parts and replacement parts to improve tone or intonation, using hand tools, lathes, or soldering irons.
  • 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.
  • Wash metal instruments in lacquer-stripping and cyanide solutions to remove lacquer and tarnish.

  • Operate welding equipment.
  • Align equipment or machinery.
  • Assemble mechanical components or machine parts.
  • Clean equipment, parts, or tools to repair or maintain them in good working order.
  • Refinish wood or metal surfaces.
  • Remove dents from equipment, materials, tools or structures.