Musical Instrument Repairers and Tuners

Tasks Include:

• Play instruments to evaluate their sound quality and to locate any defects.
• Adjust string tensions to tune instruments, using hand tools and electronic tuning devices.
• Disassemble instruments and parts for repair and adjustment.
• Inspect instruments to locate defects, and to determine their value or the level of restoration required.
• Repair cracks in wood or metal instruments, using pinning wire, lathes, fillers, clamps, or soldering irons.
• Reassemble instruments following repair, using hand tools and power tools and glue, hair, yarn, resin, or clamps, and lubricate instruments as necessary.
• Compare instrument pitches with tuning tool pitches in order to tune instruments.
• String instruments, and adjust trusses and bridges of instruments to obtain specified string tensions and heights.
• Repair or replace musical instrument parts and components, such as strings, bridges, felts, and keys, using hand and power tools.

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