Musical Instrument Repairers and Tuners

• 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.

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• Repairing - Repairing machines or systems using the needed tools.
• Troubleshooting - Determining causes of operating errors and deciding what to do about it.
• Judgment and Decision Making - Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
• Critical Thinking - Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
• Complex Problem Solving - Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
• Equipment Maintenance - Performing routine maintenance on equipment and determining when and what kind of maintenance is needed.
• Social Perceptiveness - Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
• Time Management - Managing one's own time and the time of others.
• 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.

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