Job Description:

• 1) Repairs and tunes accordions and concertinas, using handtools: Disassembles instrument and parts, such as base and treble mechanisms, bellows, reed blocks, and manuals, using handtools.

• 2) Moves parts, observing their action to detect defects.

• 3) Files, realigns, and adjusts parts, using handtools.

• 4) Recovers bellows with sateen and cloth.

• 5) Glues leather on corners of bellows.

• 6) Operates woodworking machines and uses handtools to make wood replacement parts.

• 7) Repairs cracks in celluloid.

• 8) Solders or removes and replaces defective metal parts.

• 9) Reassembles instrument and plays notes and chords to determine accuracy of repair.

• 10) May tune accordion or concertina reeds.

• 11) May repair electronic accordions, using electronic testing equipment, to determine defects and to verify repairs.