Job Description:

• 1) Lays out pattern and shapes sheet metal into brass-wind instrument bells and bell necks, using templates, machine tools, handtools, and blueprints: Traces pattern of bell onto metal, using scribe and template or blueprint.

• 2) Cuts out bell blank, using hand or power shears.

• 3) Hammers blank over bell-shaped mandrel, and butts seam, using notching tool.

• 4) Brazes seam, using torch.

• 5) Smooths seam, using hammer or file.

• 6) Operates draw bench or arbor press equipped with expandable lead plug to shape and smooth bell and bell neck over mandrel.

• 7) Operates spinning lathe to spin bell head and to form bead at tip of bell head.

• 8) Anneals previously shaped bell necks, using hand torch to soften metal for further bending.

• 9) Removes scratches from bell, using abrasive-coated cloth.

• 10) May be designated by instrument as Bell Maker, Sousaphones.