Job Description:

• 1) Repairs fretted musical instruments, such as banjos, guitars, mandolins, and ukuleles, using handtools: Inspects and plays instrument to determine defects.

• 2) Disassembles instrument, using handtools.

• 3) Removes, replaces, and dresses frets, using handtools.

• 4) Fits wood and metal replacement parts.

• 5) Reassembles and strings instrument.

• 6) Adjusts truss rod and bridge to position neck and strings.

• 7) Plays notes and chords and adjusts string tension to tune instrument.

• 8) Replaces skin or plastic heads of banjos.

• 9) Tests and replaces tubes, replaces defective parts, and solders new parts and loose connections on amplifiers, reverberation units, and pickups of electrically amplified instruments.

• 10) May repair wood bodies or carve wood replacement parts.

• 11) May be designated according to instrument repaired as Guitar Repairer.