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Job Description
Repair percussion, stringed, reed, or wind instruments. May specialize in one area, such as piano tuning.
Job Details
- The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 49-9063.00
- The Mean Annual Wage in the U.S. is $ 37,690.00
- The Mean Hourly Wage is $ 18.00
- Currently, there are 7,980 people on this job
Also Known As…
- Stringed Instrument Repairer
- Piano Tuner
- Piano Technician
- Mandolin Repair Person
- Luthier
- Instrument Repair Technician
- Guitar Repairer
- Fretted String Instrument Repairer
- Brass Instrument Repair Technician
- Banjo Repair Person
- Voicer
- Violin Repairer
- Violin Mechanic
- Tone Regulator
- Stringed Instrument Tuner
- Reed or Wind Instrument Tuner
- Reed or Wind Instrument Repairer
- Player Piano Technician
- Pipe Organ Tuner and Repairer
- Pipe Organ Technician
- Pipe Organ Mechanic Apprentice
- Pipe Organ Mechanic
- Pipe Organ Installer
- Piccolo Mechanic
- Piano Regulator-Inspector
- Piano Regulator
- Piano Mechanic Apprentice
- Piano Mechanic
- Percussion Instrument Tuner
- Percussion Instrument Repairer
- Organ Tuner
- Organ Pipe Voicer
- Organ Installer
- Organ Fixer
- Musical Instrument Mechanic
- Metal Reed Tuner
- Mandolin Repairer
- Keyboard Instrument Tuner
- Keyboard Instrument Repairer
- Harp Regulator
- Guitar Technician
- Fretted Instrument Repairer
- Fabrication Technician
- Chip Tuner
- Brass and Wind Instrument Repairer
- Bow Rehairer
- Banjo Repairer
- Band Instrument Repairer
- Accordion Tuner
- Accordion Repairer
Tasks for “Musical Instrument Repairers and Tuners”
- Assemble and install new pipe organs and pianos in buildings.
- Shape old parts and replacement parts to improve tone or intonation, using hand tools, lathes, or soldering irons.
- Play instruments to evaluate their sound quality and to locate any defects.
- Remove dents and burrs from metal instruments, using mallets and burnishing tools.
- Remove irregularities from tuning pins, strings, and hammers of pianos, using wood blocks or filing 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.
- Clean, sand, and paint parts of percussion instruments to maintain their condition.
- Wash metal instruments in lacquer-stripping and cyanide solutions to remove lacquer and tarnish.
- Refinish instruments to protect and decorate them, using hand tools, buffing tools, and varnish.
- Assemble bars onto percussion instruments.
- Deliver pianos to purchasers or to locations of their use.
- Place rim hoops back onto drum shells to allow new drumheads to dry and become taut.
- Solder or weld frames of mallet instruments and metal drum parts.
- Disassemble instruments and parts for repair and adjustment.
- 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.
- File metal reeds until their pitches correspond with standard tuning bar pitches.
- Adjust felt hammers on pianos to increase tonal mellowness or brilliance, using sanding paddles, lacquer, or needles.
- Mix and measure glue that will be used for instrument repair.
- String instruments, and adjust trusses and bridges of instruments to obtain specified string tensions and heights.
- Make wood replacement parts, using woodworking machines and hand tools.
- Stretch drumheads over rim hoops and tuck them around and under the hoops, using hand tucking tools.
- Inspect instruments to locate defects, and to determine their value or the level of restoration required.
- Replace xylophone bars and wheels.
- Solder posts and parts to hold them in their proper places.
- Compare instrument pitches with tuning tool pitches to tune instruments.
- Remove drumheads by removing tension rods with drum keys and cutting tools.
- Repair or replace musical instrument parts and components, such as strings, bridges, felts, and keys, using hand and power 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.
- Strike wood, fiberglass, or metal bars of instruments, and use tuned blocks, stroboscopes, or electronic tuners to evaluate tones made by instruments.
- Remove material from bars of percussion instruments to obtain specified tones, using bandsaws, sanding machines, machine grinders, or hand files and scrapers.
- Repair cracks in wood or metal instruments, using pinning wire, lathes, fillers, clamps, or soldering irons.
- Align pads and keys on reed or wind instruments.
- Repair breaks in percussion instruments such as drums and cymbals, using drill presses, power saws, glue, clamps, grinding wheels, or other hand tools.
- Test tubes and pickups in electronic amplifier units, and solder parts and connections as necessary.
Related Technology & Tools
- Disc sanders
- Wax spoons
- Hacksaws
- Hammer angle protractors
- Magnetic scribers
- Power sanders
- Incandescent lamps
- Mallets
- Duck bill pliers
- Bunsen burners
- Power buffers
- Piano key spacers
- Tuning forks
- Blow torches
- Key button jigs
- Soldering clips
- Flange screwdrivers
- Valve mirrors
- Sand blasters
- Post drilling jigs
- Damper regulators
- Nut files
- Magnetizers
- Band clamps
- Jack screw regulators
- Coil makers
- Torque wrenches
- Capstan screw wrenches
- Magnifiers
- Hammer shank reducers
- Hart spring tools
- Drill gauges
- Endpin jack wrenches
- Loupes
- Piano leveling devices
- Tuning levers
- Precision spray guns
- Drill presses
- Tuning wrenches
- Cam clamps
- Fluorescent lamps
- Pin vises
- Precision oilers
- Screw slotters
- Gram weights
- Bench lathes
- Rulers
- Power drills
- Scraper burnishers
- Tenon expanders
- Height measurement gauges
- Cold chisels
- Wire drill gauges
- Feeler gauge holders
- Center pin punches
- Pearl cutting saws
- Soldering clamps
- Micrometers
- Chamfer tools
- Bridge pin hole slotting saws
- Calipers
- Rip saws
- Glue guns
- Gripper truss rod wrenches
- Spring punches
- End cut nippers
- Hammer head borers
- Pocket truss rod wrenches
- Socket reamers
- Bench grinders
- Tweezers
- Fret end dressing files
- Key bushing tighteners
- Adjustable fret slotting saws
- Top deflection gauges
- Heat guns
- Soldering jigs
- Tuning pins
- Grand screwdrivers
- Screw gauges
- Curved nose scissors
- Valve lapping machines
- Slotted screwdrivers
- Hand planers
- String spacing rules
- Die stocks
- String action gauges
- Piano tuning pin cranks
- Long flat nose pliers
- Adjustable C clamps
- Flute pad irons
- Dent machines
- Pointed awls
- Arch punches
- Hand drills
- Tuning hammers
- Regulating gauges
- Nut drivers
- Tone hole cutters
- Damper rod hooks
- Allen wrenches
- Cross-cut saws
- Clarinet pad leveling tools
- Dent hammers
- Guitar humidifiers
- Neck jigs
- Refret saws
- Jack spring hole reamers
- Dollies
- Flat nose pliers
- Pin hole reamers
- Felt cutting knives
- Regulating screwdrivers
- Lost motion regulators
- Piano stringing hooks
- Valve brushes
- Action regulators
- Violin clamps
- Fret slot depth gauges
- Gram tension gauges
- Hand burnishers
- Butt plate inserters
- Air dusting guns
- Tinners snips
- Hammer head reamers
- Inspection mirrors
- Fingerboard band clamps
- Flute body mandrels
- Telescoping magnetic pickup tools
- Output jack wrenches
- Blowpipes
- Feeler gauges
- Gauged saws
- Agraffe removers
- Piano tuning pin extractors
- Looping machines
- Alcohol lamps
- Pencil torches
- Leak lights
- String lifters
- Flange bushing reamers
- Bending irons
- Tuning pin setters
- Fret dressing sticks
- Scissor jacks
- Screw extractors
- Pad cup heaters
- Torx drivers
- Routers
- Tuning pin bushing punches
- Automated sprayers
- Pencil magnets
- Alligator forceps
- Butane heaters
- Curved nose forceps
- Saddle locating jigs
- Spring cutters
- Bench oilers
- Portable band saws
- Understring radius gauges
- Burnishing rings
- Hammers
- Tuning pin gauges
- Oilers
- Air hoses
- Flute head mandrels
- Glue brushes
- Bench motors
- Seam separation knives
- Bore cleaning brushes
- Broaches
- Piano regulators
- Hammer angle gauges
- Bracket hex wrenches
- Key easing tools
- Screw pitch thread gauges
- Fret files
- File cleaners
- Brass mouthpiece brushes
- Rat tail files
- Digital tuners
- Punches
- Neck relief gauges
- Ball-end hex keys
- Piano tuning pin punches
- Thread cutting tools
- Heat control units
- Felt cutters
- Countersinks
- Spool clamps
- Punching lifters
- Grand piano jacks
- Fret rockers
- Radius gauges
- Diagonal cutters
- String hooks
- Soldering irons
- Tap wrenches
- Nut slotting gauges
- Screwdrivers
- Damper spoon benders
- Spark lighters
- Fingerboard levelers
- Japanese fret saws
- Sharp leveling and key-dip devices
- Tubing shrinkers
- Chemical dip tanks
- Deep throat C clamps
- Flute gauges
- Curved nose pliers
- Hex drivers
- Chain nose pliers
- Hand sprayers
- Bushing inserters
- Hand planes
- Bench brushes
- Soundhole clamps
- Glue pots
- Buffing machines
- Belt sanders
- Dial calipers
- Razor files
- Surface thermometers
- Flute key leveling tools
- Hammer butt spacers
- Capstan regulators
- Wood chisels
- Music wire gauges
- Jaw pliers
- Needle files
- Electronic tuners
- Cross lock tweezers
- Bench anvils
- Bore tools
- Multimeters
- String height gauges
- Purfling cutters
- Telescoping gauges
- Heat staking tools
- Digital humidity gauges
- Sprayer compressors
- Key dip blocks
- Vise grip pliers
- Bench blocks
- Arbors
- Edging clamps
- Mag machines
- Alignment jigs
- Barrel reamers
- Wire cutters
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