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Musical Instrument Repairers and Tuners
Repairs, tunes and builds musical instruments.
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Instrument repairers fix and adjust band and orchestra instruments, tune pianos, and set up guitars, for music stores, school repair shops and their own businesses. Some build instruments by hand.
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High school courses that build toward it
- Music Theory · Arts
Builds art and music, which this job uses.
- Entrepreneurship · Career and Technical
Builds sales and marketing, which this job uses.
- English 10 · English
Builds reading and writing, which this job uses.
- Physical Education · Health and PE
Builds working with customers and clients, which this job uses.
- Computer Science Principles · Computer Science
Builds computers and electronics, which this job uses.
- Physics · Science
Builds physics, which this job uses.
Ranked by how much the job relies on what each course teaches, from O*NET's knowledge ratings. Your school's own courses and the counselor have the final word.
Musical Instrument Repairers and Tuners on O*NET OnLine · O*NET 31.0 (U.S. Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0); BLS Employment Projections 2025.