Job Description:

• 1) Adjusts metal and wood organ pipes to obtain specified timber and strength of sound: Inserts unvoiced pipes in rack of tuning table and starts electric blower.

• 2) Depresses key to blow air through unvoiced pipe and voiced master pipe.

• 3) Listens to difference in tone and determines needed adjustments.

• 4) Raises or lowers lips of metal flue pipes to regulate airflow over lips, and notches languet, using handtools.

• 5) Files and raises or lowers reeds in reed pipes.

• 6) Scrapes and sands lips in wooden pipes and raises or lowers them to regulate airflow.

• 7) Enlarges or decreases opening in toe hole, using handtools, to regulate loudness of sound.

• 8) Tunes organ pipes.

• 9) May do final tuning and voicing of pipes in newly installed organs and be designated Organ-Pipe Finisher.