Job Description:

• 1) Repairs, cleans, and alters brasswind and woodwind musical instruments: Inspects instrument, moves mechanical parts, or plays scale to determine defects.

• 2) Unscrews and removes rod pins, keys, pistons, and other parts.

• 3) Removes soldered parts, using gas torch.

• 4) Reshapes parts, using handtools.

• 5) Removes dents, using mallet or burnishing tool.

• 6) Fills cracks in wood instruments, using either of following methods.

• 7) Inserts pinning wire into crack and covers wire with filler.

• 8) Operates lathe to cut groove around cracks, applies filler, and clamps retaining band into groove, using hand-operated press.

• 9) Solders patches over cracks in brass instruments, using silver solder, and files patched area to contour of instrument.

• 10) Resolders parts, using silver or soft solder.

• 11) Operates lathe to cut off end of metal tubing, or solders attachments onto tubing to improve instrument's tone or intonation.

• 12) Washes metal in lacquer-stripping solution and cyanide solution to remove lacquer coating and tarnish.

• 13) Removes burrs from instrument valves, using scraping tool.

• 14) Laps valves and pistons so they move freely.

• 15) Heats key cups to melt shellac and removes pads.

• 16) Polishes instruments, using rag and polishing compound, buffing wheel, or burnishing tool.

• 17) Glues new pads and cork pieces on key cups, using hot shellac.

• 18) Bends and cuts replacement springs and screws them into place.

• 19) May be designated according to type of instrument repaired as Brasswind-Instrument Repairer; Woodwind-Instrument Repairer.