Employment Percentage
-11.55234657
SOC ID
49-9063
SOC Title
Musical Instrument Repairers and Tuners
ONET ID
49-9063.00
ONET Concat ID
49906300
Median Salary
37074.01
EMSI Interest Area Term
Ed Level High School
42.849998
Ed Level Certificate
42.860001
Ed Level Some College
0
Ed Level Associates
10.71
Ed Level Bachelors
3.57
Ed Level Masters
0
Ed Level Doctors
0
Typical Ed Level
a certificate
Career Description
Repair percussion, stringed, reed, or wind instruments. May specialize in one area, such as piano tuning.
Core Tasks
- 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.
- Reassemble instruments following repair, using hand tools and power tools and glue, hair, yarn, resin, or clamps, and lubricate instruments as necessary.
- Disassemble instruments and parts for repair and adjustment.
- Repair or replace musical instrument parts and components, such as strings, bridges, felts, and keys, using hand and power tools.
- Inspect instruments to locate defects, and to determine their value or the level of restoration required.
- Compare instrument pitches with tuning tool pitches to tune instruments.
- String instruments, and adjust trusses and bridges of instruments to obtain specified string tensions and heights.
- Polish instruments, using rags and polishing compounds, buffing wheels, or burnishing tools.
- Repair cracks in wood or metal instruments, using pinning wire, lathes, fillers, clamps, or soldering irons.
- Shape old parts and replacement parts to improve tone or intonation, using hand tools, lathes, or soldering irons.
- Mix and measure glue that will be used for instrument repair.
- Refinish instruments to protect and decorate them, using hand tools, buffing tools, and varnish.
- Make wood replacement parts, using woodworking machines and hand tools.
Start Annual Earnings
20010.53
Top Annual Earnings
84237.92
EMSI Career Title Slug
musical-instrument-repairer-and-tuner