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Career Details :: Percussion Instrument Repairers and Tuners
Description
Repair and tune musical percussion instruments.
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.
Education
Most occupations in this zone require training in vocational schools, related on-the-job experience, or an associate's degree. Some may require a bachelor's degree.
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.
Tasks
- Solders or welds frames of mallet instruments and metal drum parts.
- Compares tone of bar with tuned block, stroboscope, or electronic tuner.
- Cleans, sands, and paints parts of percussion instruments to maintain their condition, in accordance to blueprints and shop drawings.
- Assembles bar onto instruments.
- Removes drumhead, using drum key and cutting tools.
- Removes material from bar, using band saw, sanding machine, machine grinder, or hand files and scrapers, to obtain the specified tone.
- Strikes wood, fiberglass, or metal bars of instruments, such as xylophone or vibraharp, to ascertain tone.
- Removes dents in tympani, using steel block and hammer.
- Repairs breaks in percussion instruments, such as drums and cymbals, using drill press, power saw, glues, clamps, or other hand tools.
- Stretches skin over rim hoop, using hand tucking tool.
- Places rim hoop back onto drum shell to allow drumhead to dry and become taut.
- Soaks drumhead in water to make it pliable.
- Cuts new drumhead from animal skin, using scissors.
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Important Abilities
General Work Activities
- Handling and Moving Objects
- Inspecting Equipment, Structures, Material
- Judging Qualities of Things, Service, People
- Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events
- Evaluating Information Against Standards
Important Skills
Frequent Work Context
- Using Hands on Objects, Tools, Controls
- Importance of Being Exact or Accurate
- Importance of Being Sure All Is Done
- Consequence of Error
- Indoors
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