Percussion Instrument Repairers and Tuners

Repair and tune musical percussion instruments.

Job Task

• Repairs breaks in percussion instruments, such as drums and cymbals, using drill press, power saw, glues, clamps, or other hand tools.
• Strikes wood, fiberglass, or metal bars of instruments, such as xylophone or vibraharp, to ascertain tone.
• Compares tone of bar with tuned block, stroboscope, or electronic tuner.
• Removes dents in tympani, using steel block and hammer.
• Removes drumhead, using drum key and cutting tools.
• Cuts new drumhead from animal skin, using scissors.
• Soaks drumhead in water to make it pliable.
• Removes material from bar, using bandsaw, sanding machine, machine grinder, or hand files and scrapers, to obtain the specified tone.
• Assembles bar onto instruments.
• Solders or welds frames of mallet instruments and metal drum parts.
• Cleans, sands, and paints parts of percussion instruments to maintain their condition, in accordance to blueprints and shop drawings.
• Stretches skin over rim hoop, using hand tucking tool.
• Places rim hoop back onto drum shell to allow drumhead to dry and become taut.

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