Job Description:

• 1) Adjusts and repairs bowed musical instruments, such as cellos, violas, and violins, using handtools: Inspects and plays instrument to determine defects.

• 2) Disassembles instrument, using handtools.

• 3) Removes cracked or broken sections, using heated knife and handtools.

• 4) Glues cracked part, places it in plaster cast, and clamps cast in handpress.

• 5) Cuts out broken sections, carves replacement parts, and fits replacements to original shape and dimensions of instrument.

• 6) Reassembles body of instrument, using glue and clamps.

• 7) Planes and replaces fingerboard, and fits and replaces pegs.

• 8) Varnishes, rubs, and buffs instruments to protect and decorate them.

• 9) Strings instrument and fits bridge and soundpost to obtain specified string tension and height.

• 10) May repair bows.

• 11) May be designated according to instrument repaired as Bass-Viol Repairer.

• 12) When repairing bows, may be known as Bow Repairer.