How do they match: Musical Instrument Repairers and Tuners

  • Musical Instrument Repairers and Tuners

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

  • Polish instruments, using rags and polishing compounds, buffing wheels, or burnishing tools.
  • Adjust string tensions to tune instruments, using hand tools and electronic tuning devices.
  • Cut out sections around cracks on percussion instruments to prevent cracks from advancing, using shears or grinding wheels.
  • Make wood replacement parts, using woodworking machines and hand tools.
  • Refinish and polish piano cabinets or cases to prepare them for sale.
  • Remove drumheads by removing tension rods with drum keys and cutting 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.
  • String instruments, and adjust trusses and bridges of instruments to obtain specified string tensions and heights.

  • Operate welding equipment.
  • Align equipment or machinery.
  • Assemble mechanical components or machine parts.