Job Description:

• 1) Fabricates or alters brass-wind instrument parts, and assembles parts into completed instruments, ascertaining fabrication and assembly procedures from standard or customer's specifications: Reads specifications and makes calculations to determine procedures for fabricating and assembling instrument.

• 2) Sets up and operates drawbench, bandsaw, and lathe to draw, cut, and machine instrument tubing.

• 3) Bends tubing around forming blocks by hand.

• 4) Measures tubing, using rule, to locate position of holes to be drilled for pistons and valve casings.

• 5) Operates drill press, honing machine, and lapping machine to drill, hone, and lap metal components.

• 6) Solders piston and valve components, using silver and soft solder.

• 7) Hammers bell neck around bell-shaped mandrel, and brazes seams with oxyacetylene torch.

• 8) Operates spinning lathe to shape bell head around mandrel.

• 9) Assembles parts, such as braces, slides, valves, pistons, and bell head to form completed instrument, using handtools, measuring devices, and soldering iron.

• 10) Plates assembled instrument with nickel, copper, or silver.

• 11) May repair brass-wind instruments.

• 12) May be designated according to instrument or part made as Saxophone Assembler; Valve Maker I.