Jobs / Physical work / 49-9063.00
Musical Instrument Repairers and Tuners
Repair percussion, stringed, reed, or wind instruments. May specialize in one area, such as piano tuning.
- US jobs
- 5,380
- Median wage
- $46,420 a year
- Job family
- Physical work
Can agents do the work of musical instrument repairers and tuners?
We read the evidence at the level of the job family, Physical work:
- Task levelUnexploredNo benchmark in our collection covers this work yet.
- Project levelUnexploredNo benchmark in our collection covers this work yet.
Unexplored territory
No benchmark in this atlas covers this work yet.
Typical tasks
From O*NET 31.0. Core tasks first. Few of these tasks have a benchmark today.
- Adjust string tensions to tune instruments, using hand tools and electronic tuning devices.
- Compare instrument pitches with tuning tool pitches to tune instruments.
- Play instruments to evaluate their sound quality and to locate any defects.
- 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.
- Reassemble instruments following repair, using hand tools and power tools and glue, hair, yarn, resin, or clamps, and lubricate instruments as necessary.
- Inspect instruments to locate defects, and to determine their value or the level of restoration required.
- Shape old parts and replacement parts to improve tone or intonation, using hand tools, lathes, or soldering irons.
- String instruments, and adjust trusses and bridges of instruments to obtain specified string tensions and heights.
- Repair cracks in wood or metal instruments, using pinning wire, lathes, fillers, clamps, or soldering irons.
- Polish instruments, using rags and polishing compounds, buffing wheels, or burnishing tools.
- Mix and measure glue that will be used for instrument repair.
Other job titles for this occupation (56)
Brass Instrument Repair Technician (Brass Instrument Repair Tech) · Fretted String Instrument Repairer · Guitar Repairer · Instrument Repair Technician (Instrument Repair Tech) · Luthier · Musical Instrument Repair Technician (Musical Instrument Repair Tech) · Piano Technician (Piano Tech) · Piano Tuner · Stringed Instrument Repairer · Woodwind Instrument Technician (Woodwind Instrument Tech) · Accordion Repairer · Accordion Tuner · Band Instrument Repair Technician (Band Instrument Repair Tech) · Band Instrument Repairer · Banjo Repairer · Bow Repairer · Brass and Wind Instrument Repairer · Fretted Instrument Repairer · Guitar Builder · Guitar Inspector · Guitar Repair Technician (Guitar Repair Tech) · Guitar Technician (Guitar Tech) · Harp Regulator · Instrument Builder · Keyboard Instrument Repairer · Keyboard Instrument Tuner · Mandolin Repairer · Metal Reed Tuner · Musical Instrument Mechanic · Organ Fixer · Organ Installer · Organ Pipe Voicer · Organ Preservationist · Organ Tuner · Percussion Instrument Repairer · Percussion Instrument Tuner · Piano Inspector · Piano Mechanic · Piano Regulator · Piccolo Mechanic · Pipe Organ Installer · Pipe Organ Mechanic · Pipe Organ Repairer · Pipe Organ Technician (Pipe Organ Tech) · Pipe Organ Tuner · Player Piano Technician (Player Piano Tech) · Reed or Wind Instrument Repairer · Reed or Wind Instrument Tuner · Registered Piano Technician (Registered Piano Tech) · Stringed Instrument Tuner · Tone Regulator · Tuner · Violin Mechanic · Violin Repairer · Voicer · Wind Instrument Repairer