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Career Details :: Reed or Wind Instrument Repairers and Tuners
Description
Repair, adjust, refinish, and tune musical reed and wind instruments.
Experience
A minimum of two to four years of work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is needed for these occupations. For example, an accountant must complete four years of college and work for several years in accounting to be considered qualified.
Education
Most of these occupations require a four-year bachelor's degree, but some do not.
Training
Employees in these occupations usually need several years of work-related experience, on-the-job training, and/or vocational training.
Tasks
- Operates bellows to sound metal reed and ascertain its pitch.
- Files reed until pitch corresponds with standard pitch of tuning bar.
- Polishes instrument, using rag and polishing compound, buffing wheel, or burnishing tool.
- Shapes old parts and replacement parts to improve tone or intonation, using hand tools, lathe, or soldering iron.
- Inspects mechanical parts of instrument to determine defects.
- Repairs cracks in wood or metal instruments, using wire, lathe, filler, clamps, or soldering iron.
- Removes dents and burrs from metal instruments, using mallet and burnishing tool.
- Compares pitch of reed with pitch of tuning bar.
- Lubricates and reassembles instrument, using hand tools and soldering iron or torch.
- Disassembles instrument parts, such as keys, pistons, and other parts, to tune or repair, using gas torch and hand tools.
- Washes metal instruments in lacquer-stripping and cyanide solution to remove lacquer and tarnish.
- Replaces worn pads and springs, using hand tools.
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Important Abilities
General Work Activities
- Handling and Moving Objects
- Inspecting Equipment, Structures, Material
- Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events
- Repairing & Maintaining Mechanical Equipment
- Getting Information Needed to Do the Job
Important Skills
Frequent Work Context
- Importance of Being Exact or Accurate
- Importance of Being Sure All Is Done
- Indoors
- Using Hands on Objects, Tools, Controls
- Consequence of Error
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