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 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.
- Polish instruments, using rags and polishing compounds, buffing wheels, or burnishing tools.
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The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™; US Department of Labor (BLS); Virginia Workforce Connection. (Using onet28)
Projections Quick View:
Virginia: No Data
National: -7.8%
Education
Post-Secondary Certificate
Job Zone:
Three: Medium Preparation Needed
Income Range:
Moderately High ($36,000 - $49,999)
Median Earnings:
National
$38,150.00
State
$36,910.00
Regional
Musical Instrument Repairers and Tuners
Description
Career Cluster: | Manufacturing |
Repair percussion, stringed, reed, or wind instruments. May specialize in one area, such as piano tuning.
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Musical Instrument Repairers and Tuners
Education
Required Level of Education
- Post-Secondary Certificate - awarded for training completed after high school (for example, in agriculture or natural resources, computer services, personal or culinary services, engineering technologies, healthcare, construction trades, mechanic and repair technologies, or precision production) = 42.86%
- High School Diploma - or the equivalent (for example, GED) = 35.71%
- Associate's Degree (or other 2-year degree) = 10.71%
- Less than a High School Diploma = 7.14%
- Bachelor's Degree = 3.57%
Related Work Experience
- Over 1 year, up to and including 2 years = 25%
- Over 6 months, up to and including 1 year = 21.43%
- Over 2 years, up to and including 4 years = 21.43%
- None = 10.71%
- Over 4 years, up to and including 6 years = 10.71%
- Over 6 years, up to and including 8 years = 7.14%
- Over 3 months, up to and including 6 months = 3.57%
On-Site or In-Plant Training
- Over 6 months, up to and including 1 year = 35.71%
- None = 14.29%
- Up to and including 1 month = 14.29%
- Over 3 months, up to and including 6 months = 14.29%
- Over 2 years, up to and including 4 years = 14.29%
- Over 1 month, up to and including 3 months = 3.57%
- Over 1 year, up to and including 2 years = 3.57%
On-the-Job Training
- Over 6 months, up to and including 1 year = 31.03%
- Over 2 years, up to and including 4 years = 27.59%
- Over 3 months, up to and including 6 months = 10.34%
- Over 1 year, up to and including 2 years = 10.34%
- None or short demonstration = 6.90%
- Anything beyond short demonstration, up to and including 1 month = 6.90%
- Over 1 month, up to and including 3 months = 3.45%
- Over 4 years, up to and including 10 years = 3.45%
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Musical Instrument Repairers and Tuners
Tasks
Core 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 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.
- Polish instruments, using rags and polishing compounds, buffing wheels, or burnishing tools.
- Shape old parts and replacement parts to improve tone or intonation, using hand tools, lathes, or soldering irons.
- Make wood replacement parts, using woodworking machines and hand tools.
- 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.
Supplemental Tasks Include:
- Align pads and keys on reed or wind instruments.
- Adjust felt hammers on pianos to increase tonal mellowness or brilliance, using sanding paddles, lacquer, or needles.
- Solder posts and parts to hold them in their proper places.
- Remove dents and burrs from metal instruments, using mallets and burnishing tools.
- Wash metal instruments in lacquer-stripping and cyanide solutions to remove lacquer and tarnish.
- Test tubes and pickups in electronic amplifier units, and solder parts and connections as necessary.
- Deliver pianos to purchasers or to locations of their use.
- Cut out sections around cracks on percussion instruments to prevent cracks from advancing, using shears or grinding wheels.
- Refinish and polish piano cabinets or cases to prepare them for sale.
- Solder or weld frames of mallet instruments and metal drum parts.
- Remove drumheads by removing tension rods with drum keys and cutting tools.
- Assemble bars onto percussion instruments.
- Remove irregularities from tuning pins, strings, and hammers of pianos, using wood blocks or filing tools.
- Repair breaks in percussion instruments, such as drums and cymbals, using drill presses, power saws, glue, clamps, grinding wheels, or other hand tools.
- Clean, sand, and paint parts of percussion instruments to maintain their condition.
- Replace xylophone bars and wheels.
- Strike wood, fiberglass, or metal bars of instruments, and use tuned blocks, stroboscopes, or electronic tuners to evaluate tones made by instruments.
- Place rim hoops back onto drum shells to allow new drumheads to dry and become taut.
- Assemble and install new pipe organs and pianos in buildings.
- Cut new drumheads from animal skins, using scissors, and soak drumheads in water to make them pliable.
- Stretch drumheads over rim hoops and tuck them around and under the hoops, using hand tucking tools.
- Remove material from bars of percussion instruments to obtain specified tones, using bandsaws, sanding machines, machine grinders, or hand files and scrapers.
- File metal reeds until their pitches correspond with standard tuning bar pitches.
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Musical Instrument Repairers and Tuners
Knowledge
% | Subject | Description |
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82.00 | Customer and Personal Service | Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction. |
60.25 | Fine Arts | Knowledge of the theory and techniques required to compose, produce, and perform works of music, dance, visual arts, drama, and sculpture. |
60.25 | Mechanical | Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance. |
58.50 | English Language | Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar. |
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Musical Instrument Repairers and Tuners
Skills
% | Subject | Description |
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72.00 | Repairing | Repairing machines or systems using the needed tools. |
68.75 | Troubleshooting | Determining causes of operating errors and deciding what to do about it. |
65.50 | Quality Control Analysis | Conducting tests and inspections of products, services, or processes to evaluate quality or performance. |
62.50 | Critical Thinking | Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems. |
59.50 | Judgment and Decision Making | Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one. |
56.25 | Time Management | Managing one's own time and the time of others. |
53.00 | Active Listening | Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times. |
53.00 | Speaking | Talking to others to convey information effectively. |
53.00 | Operations Monitoring | Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly. |
53.00 | Complex Problem Solving | Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions. |
53.00 | Service Orientation | Actively looking for ways to help people. |
50.00 | Reading Comprehension | Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work-related documents. |
50.00 | Equipment Selection | Determining the kind of tools and equipment needed to do a job. |
50.00 | Active Learning | Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making. |
50.00 | Monitoring | Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action. |
50.00 | Social Perceptiveness | Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do. |
50.00 | Equipment Maintenance | Performing routine maintenance on equipment and determining when and what kind of maintenance is needed. |
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Musical Instrument Repairers and Tuners
Abilities
% | Subject | Description |
---|---|---|
78.00 | Hearing Sensitivity | The ability to detect or tell the differences between sounds that vary in pitch and loudness. |
75.00 | Arm-Hand Steadiness | The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position. |
75.00 | Manual Dexterity | The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects. |
75.00 | Finger Dexterity | The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects. |
72.00 | Near Vision | The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer). |
72.00 | Control Precision | The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions. |
72.00 | Auditory Attention | The ability to focus on a single source of sound in the presence of other distracting sounds. |
65.50 | Deductive Reasoning | The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense. |
65.50 | Inductive Reasoning | The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events). |
62.50 | Problem Sensitivity | The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing that there is a problem. |
62.50 | Visualization | The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged. |
56.25 | Oral Expression | The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand. |
56.25 | Oral Comprehension | The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences. |
56.25 | Information Ordering | The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations). |
56.25 | Flexibility of Closure | The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material. |
56.25 | Selective Attention | The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted. |
53.00 | Category Flexibility | The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways. |
53.00 | Multilimb Coordination | The ability to coordinate two or more limbs (for example, two arms, two legs, or one leg and one arm) while sitting, standing, or lying down. It does not involve performing the activities while the whole body is in motion. |
53.00 | Speech Recognition | The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person. |
50.00 | Speech Clarity | The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you. |
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Musical Instrument Repairers and Tuners
Work Activities
% | Subject | Description |
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81.00 | Getting Information | Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources. |
80.25 | Making Decisions and Solving Problems | Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems. |
77.75 | Performing for or Working Directly with the Public | Performing for people or dealing directly with the public. This includes serving customers in restaurants and stores, and receiving clients or guests. |
71.50 | Handling and Moving Objects | Using hands and arms in handling, installing, positioning, and moving materials, and manipulating things. |
69.75 | Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Materials | Inspecting equipment, structures, or materials to identify the cause of errors or other problems or defects. |
69.00 | Controlling Machines and Processes | Using either control mechanisms or direct physical activity to operate machines or processes (not including computers or vehicles). |
69.00 | Thinking Creatively | Developing, designing, or creating new applications, ideas, relationships, systems, or products, including artistic contributions. |
68.00 | Repairing and Maintaining Mechanical Equipment | Servicing, repairing, adjusting, and testing machines, devices, moving parts, and equipment that operate primarily on the basis of mechanical (not electronic) principles. |
65.50 | Judging the Qualities of Objects, Services, or People | Assessing the value, importance, or quality of things or people. |
65.50 | Scheduling Work and Activities | Scheduling events, programs, and activities, as well as the work of others. |
65.50 | Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work | Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work. |
65.25 | Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships | Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time. |
64.75 | Performing Administrative Activities | Performing day-to-day administrative tasks such as maintaining information files and processing paperwork. |
64.75 | Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge | Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job. |
63.75 | Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events | Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events. |
63.00 | Communicating with People Outside the Organization | Communicating with people outside the organization, representing the organization to customers, the public, government, and other external sources. This information can be exchanged in person, in writing, or by telephone or e-mail. |
59.50 | Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates | Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person. |
56.00 | Monitoring and Controlling Resources | Monitoring and controlling resources and overseeing the spending of money. |
55.25 | Estimating the Quantifiable Characteristics of Products, Events, or Information | Estimating sizes, distances, and quantities; or determining time, costs, resources, or materials needed to perform a work activity. |
54.25 | Monitoring Processes, Materials, or Surroundings | Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, to detect or assess problems. |
54.25 | Selling or Influencing Others | Convincing others to buy merchandise/goods or to otherwise change their minds or actions. |
51.75 | Performing General Physical Activities | Performing physical activities that require considerable use of your arms and legs and moving your whole body, such as climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, stooping, and handling materials. |
50.75 | Resolving Conflicts and Negotiating with Others | Handling complaints, settling disputes, and resolving grievances and conflicts, or otherwise negotiating with others. |
50.75 | Training and Teaching Others | Identifying the educational needs of others, developing formal educational or training programs or classes, and teaching or instructing others. |
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Musical Instrument Repairers and Tuners
Work Styles
% | Subject | Description |
---|---|---|
98.25 | Attention to Detail | Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks. |
92.25 | Dependability | Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations. |
87.00 | Integrity | Job requires being honest and ethical. |
84.50 | Persistence | Job requires persistence in the face of obstacles. |
82.75 | Independence | Job requires developing one's own ways of doing things, guiding oneself with little or no supervision, and depending on oneself to get things done. |
77.50 | Achievement/Effort | Job requires establishing and maintaining personally challenging achievement goals and exerting effort toward mastering tasks. |
74.25 | Initiative | Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges. |
73.25 | Analytical Thinking | Job requires analyzing information and using logic to address work-related issues and problems. |
71.50 | Adaptability/Flexibility | Job requires being open to change (positive or negative) and to considerable variety in the workplace. |
70.75 | Self-Control | Job requires maintaining composure, keeping emotions in check, controlling anger, and avoiding aggressive behavior, even in very difficult situations. |
66.50 | Cooperation | Job requires being pleasant with others on the job and displaying a good-natured, cooperative attitude. |
63.00 | Stress Tolerance | Job requires accepting criticism and dealing calmly and effectively with high-stress situations. |
60.25 | Innovation | Job requires creativity and alternative thinking to develop new ideas for and answers to work-related problems. |
56.00 | Concern for Others | Job requires being sensitive to others' needs and feelings and being understanding and helpful on the job. |
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Musical Instrument Repairers and Tuners
Work Values
% | Subject | Description |
---|---|---|
55.50 | Achievement | Occupations that satisfy this work value are results oriented and allow employees to use their strongest abilities, giving them a feeling of accomplishment. Corresponding needs are Ability Utilization and Achievement. |
55.50 | Independence | Occupations that satisfy this work value allow employees to work on their own and make decisions. Corresponding needs are Creativity, Responsibility and Autonomy. |
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Musical Instrument Repairers and Tuners
Work Context
% | Subject | Description |
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98.60 | Indoors, Environmentally Controlled | How often does this job require working indoors in environmentally controlled conditions? |
98.00 | Telephone | How often do you have telephone conversations in this job? |
95.20 | Importance of Being Exact or Accurate | How important is being very exact or highly accurate in performing this job? |
94.40 | Electronic Mail | How often do you use electronic mail in this job? |
94.40 | Face-to-Face Discussions | How often do you have to have face-to-face discussions with individuals or teams in this job? |
93.20 | Spend Time Using Your Hands to Handle, Control, or Feel Objects, Tools, or Controls | How much does this job require using your hands to handle, control, or feel objects, tools or controls? |
89.00 | Freedom to Make Decisions | How much decision making freedom, without supervision, does the job offer? |
86.80 | Deal With External Customers | How important is it to work with external customers or the public in this job? |
86.20 | Structured versus Unstructured Work | To what extent is this job structured for the worker, rather than allowing the worker to determine tasks, priorities, and goals? |
84.80 | Time Pressure | How often does this job require the worker to meet strict deadlines? |
83.40 | Wear Common Protective or Safety Equipment such as Safety Shoes, Glasses, Gloves, Hearing Protection, Hard Hats, or Life Jackets | How much does this job require wearing common protective or safety equipment such as safety shoes, glasses, gloves, hard hats or life jackets? |
80.00 | Contact With Others | How much does this job require the worker to be in contact with others (face-to-face, by telephone, or otherwise) in order to perform it? |
76.60 | Frequency of Decision Making | How frequently is the worker required to make decisions that affect other people, the financial resources, and/or the image and reputation of the organization? |
75.20 | Sounds, Noise Levels Are Distracting or Uncomfortable | How often does this job require working exposed to sounds and noise levels that are distracting or uncomfortable? |
74.40 | Impact of Decisions on Co-workers or Company Results | What results do your decisions usually have on other people or the image or reputation or financial resources of your employer? |
73.80 | Spend Time Making Repetitive Motions | How much does this job require making repetitive motions? |
73.80 | Exposed to Contaminants | How often does this job require working exposed to contaminants (such as pollutants, gases, dust or odors)? |
73.20 | Importance of Repeating Same Tasks | How important is repeating the same physical activities (e.g., key entry) or mental activities (e.g., checking entries in a ledger) over and over, without stopping, to performing this job? |
69.60 | Spend Time Sitting | How much does this job require sitting? |
67.60 | Exposed to Hazardous Equipment | How often does this job require exposure to hazardous equipment? |
66.20 | Letters and Memos | How often does the job require written letters and memos? |
64.20 | Level of Competition | To what extent does this job require the worker to compete or to be aware of competitive pressures? |
62.00 | Exposed to Minor Burns, Cuts, Bites, or Stings | How often does this job require exposure to minor burns, cuts, bites, or stings? |
62.00 | Exposed to Hazardous Conditions | How often does this job require exposure to hazardous conditions? |
58.00 | Physical Proximity | To what extent does this job require the worker to perform job tasks in close physical proximity to other people? |
55.80 | Responsible for Others' Health and Safety | How much responsibility is there for the health and safety of others in this job? |
55.80 | Consequence of Error | How serious would the result usually be if the worker made a mistake that was not readily correctable? |
53.80 | Work With Work Group or Team | How important is it to work with others in a group or team in this job? |
53.20 | Responsibility for Outcomes and Results | How responsible is the worker for work outcomes and results of other workers? |
52.40 | Spend Time Standing | How much does this job require standing? |
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Musical Instrument Repairers and Tuners
Job Zone Three: Medium Preparation Needed
- Overall Experience
- Previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is required for these occupations. For example, an electrician must have completed three or four years of apprenticeship or several years of vocational training, and often must have passed a licensing exam, in order to perform the job.
- Job Training
- Employees in these occupations usually need one or two years of training involving both on-the-job experience and informal training with experienced workers. A recognized apprenticeship program may be associated with these occupations.
- Examples
- These occupations usually involve using communication and organizational skills to coordinate, supervise, manage, or train others to accomplish goals. Examples include hydroelectric production managers, desktop publishers, electricians, agricultural technicians, barbers, court reporters and simultaneous captioners, and medical assistants.
- Education
- Most occupations in this zone require training in vocational schools, related on-the-job experience, or an associate's degree.
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Musical Instrument Repairers and Tuners
Earnings Benefits*
Region | Entry Level | Median | Experienced |
---|---|---|---|
United States | $27,250.00 | $38,150.00 | $49,230.00 |
Virginia | $26,160.00 | $36,910.00 | $45,150.00 |
Region | Entry Level | Median | Experienced |
Alexandria/Arlington | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Bay Consortium | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Capital Region Workforce Partnership | $25,231.02 | $38,433.10 | $43,028.28 |
Central VA/Region2000 | $27,329.63 | $32,109.28 | $36,051.56 |
Crater Area | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Greater Peninsula | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Hampton Roads | No Data | No Data | No Data |
New River/Mt. Rogers | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Northern Virginia | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Piedmont Workforce | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Shenandoah Valley | No Data | No Data | No Data |
South Central | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Southwestern Virginia | No Data | No Data | No Data |
West Piedmont | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Western Virginia | No Data | No Data | No Data |
* Earnings Calculations:
Regional Earnings:
Entry = Annual mean of the lower 1/3 wage distribution;
Experienced = Annual mean of the upper 2/3 wage distribution.
National and State Earnings:
Entry = Annual 10th percentile wage;
Experienced = Annual 75th percentile wage.
The data sources for the information displayed here include: US Department of Labor (BLS); Virginia Workforce Connection. (Using onet28)
Musical Instrument Repairers and Tuners
Employment Projections
Current | Projected | % Change | |
---|---|---|---|
United States | 6,400 | 5,900 | -7.8% |
Virginia | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Region | Current* | Projected | % Change |
Alexandria/Arlington | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Bay Consortium | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Capital Region Workforce Partnership | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Central VA/Region2000 | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Crater Area | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Greater Peninsula | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Hampton Roads | No Data | No Data | No Data |
New River/Mt. Rogers | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Northern Virginia | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Piedmont Workforce | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Shenandoah Valley | No Data | No Data | No Data |
South Central | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Southwestern Virginia | No Data | No Data | No Data |
West Piedmont | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Western Virginia | No Data | No Data | No Data |
The data sources for the information displayed here include: US Department of Labor (BLS); Virginia Workforce Connection. (Using onet28)
Musical Instrument Repairers and Tuners
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Proficiency Ratings
These proficiencies are scored on a scale from 1 to 5 with 1 being not
important to the job and 5 being extremely important to the job.
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Titles
- Accordion Repairer
- Accordion Tuner
- Band Instrument Repair Technician
- Band Instrument Repairer
- Band Instrument Repairman
- Banjo Repair Person
- Banjo Repairer
- Bow Rehairer
- Brass and Wind Instrument Repairer
- Chip Tuner
- Fabrication Technician
- Fretted Instrument Repairer
- Fretted String Instrument Repairer
- Guitar Builder
- Guitar Repairer
- Guitar Technician
- Harp Regulator
- Keyboard Instrument Repairer
- Keyboard Instrument Tuner
- Luthier
- Mandolin Repair Person
- Mandolin Repairer
- Metal Reed Tuner
- Musical Instrument Mechanic
- Organ Fixer
- Organ Installer
- Organ Pipe Voicer
- Organ Tuner
- Percussion Instrument Repairer
- Percussion Instrument Tuner
- Piano Mechanic
- Piano Mechanic Apprentice
- Piano Regulator
- Piano Regulator-Inspector
- Piano Technician
- Piano Tuner
- Piccolo Mechanic
- Pipe Organ Installer
- Pipe Organ Mechanic
- Pipe Organ Mechanic Apprentice
- Pipe Organ Technician
- Pipe Organ Tuner and Repairer
- Player Piano Technician
- Reed or Wind Instrument Repairer
- Reed or Wind Instrument Tuner
- Stringed Instrument Repairer
- Stringed Instrument Tuner
- Tone Regulator
- Violin Mechanic
- Violin Repairer
- Voicer
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Musical Instrument Repairers and Tuners
Related Schools
- Indiana University-Bloomington
- Minnesota State College Southeast
- Musicians Institute
- North Bennet Street School
- Palomar College
- Renton Technical College
- Roberto-Venn School of Luthiery
- Western Iowa Tech Community College
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