Keyboard Instrument Repairers and Tuners

Repair, adjust, refinish, and tune musical keyboard instruments.

Job Task

• Repairs or replaces defective, broken, or worn parts, using hand tools, power tools, glue, and nails.
• Adjusts lips, reeds, or toe hole of organ pipes, using hand tools, to regulate airflow and loudness of sound.
• Adjusts alignment, string spacing, and striking point of hammers of piano, using wrench, burner, shims, and bushings.
• Removes irregularities from tuning pins, strings, and hammers of piano, using wood block or filing tool.
• Compares pitch of instruments with specified pitch of tuning tool to tune instrument.
• Disassembles and reassembles instruments and parts to tune and repair, using hand tools and power tools.
• Adjusts felt hammers on piano to increase tonal mellowness or brilliance, using sanding paddle, lacquer, or needles.
• Inspects and tests parts of pianos, pipe organs, accordions, and concertinas to determine defects, using hand tools, gauges, and electronic testing equipment.
• Cleans instruments, using vacuum cleaner.
• Mixes and measures glue.
• Makes wood replacement parts, using woodworking machines and hand tools.
• Assembles and installs new pipe organs and pianos in buildings.

Looking for a job in Keyboard Instrument Repairers and Tuners? Check out these great job search websites. Thousands of job opportunities and reseach for a new career! Includes job search websites from Australia and internationally