Musical Instrument Repairers and Tuners

People in this career often have these skills:

• Repairing - Repairing machines or systems using the needed tools.
• Troubleshooting - Determining causes of operating errors and deciding what to do about it.
• Quality Control Analysis - Conducting tests and inspections of products, services, or processes to evaluate quality or performance.
• Critical Thinking - Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.
• Judgment and Decision Making - Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.

People in this career often know a lot about:

• Customer and Personal Service - Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
• Mechanical - Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance.
• Fine Arts - Knowledge of the theory and techniques required to compose, produce, and perform works of music, dance, visual arts, drama, and sculpture.
• English Language - Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.

People in this career often have talent in:

• Hearing Sensitivity - The ability to detect or tell the differences between sounds that vary in pitch and loudness.
• Arm-Hand Steadiness - The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position.
• Manual Dexterity - The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects.
• Finger Dexterity - The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects.
• Control Precision - The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions.

• Near Vision - The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
• Auditory Attention - The ability to focus on a single source of sound in the presence of other distracting sounds.
• Deductive Reasoning - The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
• Inductive Reasoning - The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
• Problem Sensitivity - The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing that there is a problem.
• Visualization - The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged.

People in this career often do these activities:

• Test mechanical equipment to ensure proper functioning.
• Align equipment or machinery.
• Adjust tuning or functioning of musical instruments.
• Adjust equipment to ensure optimal performance.
• Reassemble equipment after repair.

• Lubricate equipment to allow proper functioning.
• Disassemble equipment for maintenance or repair.
• Replace worn, damaged, or defective mechanical parts.
• Repair worn, damaged, or defective mechanical parts.
• Inspect mechanical equipment to locate damage, defects, or wear.
• Solder parts or connections between parts.
• Remove dents from equipment, materials, tools or structures.
• Test electrical circuits or components for proper functioning.
• Smooth surfaces of objects or equipment.
• Prepare compounds or solutions to be used for repairs.
• Refinish wood or metal surfaces.
• Fabricate parts or components.
• Clean equipment, parts, or tools to repair or maintain them in good working order.
• Assemble mechanical components or machine parts.
• Travel to work sites to perform installation, repair or maintenance work.
• Remove parts or components from equipment.
• Operate welding equipment.
• Cut materials according to specifications or needs.
• Paint surfaces or equipment.

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