Occupation Atlasmusical instrument technician
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/3c1b7871-87f9-427b-adcb-fe16be8f9f24
musical instrument technician
Musical instrument technicians maintain, tune and repair musical instruments such as pianos, pipe organs, band instruments, violins and other instruments.
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Job Zone
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Zone 3: Medium Preparation Needed
Medium preparation. Vocational training, related on-the-job experience, or an associate degree, with one to two years of training that combines experience and informal instruction.
Job Zone is O*NET's rating of how much education, experience and training an occupation typically needs — a property of the work, not of anyone doing it.
Occupational interest profile
RCARealistic · Conventional · Artistic — the three strongest interests, in order
- R Realistic6.39
- C Conventional3.54
- A Artistic3.46
- I Investigative2.64
- S Social1.58
- E Enterprising1.00
RIASEC (Holland) interests on O*NET's 0–7 scale: what the work draws on, not what any individual prefers. Hover a row for what each dimension means.
Job Zone and interest data are borrowed from Musical Instrument Repairers and Tuners (49-9063.00): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, its exact O*NET match, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (12)
ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.
- assemble musical instrument parts
- identify customer's needs
- maintain musical instruments
- musical instruments
- musical instruments materials
- prevent technical problems of musical instruments
- repair musical instruments
- restore musical instruments
- rewire electronic musical instruments
- tune keyboard music instruments
- tune stringed musical instruments
- tuning techniques
Optional (17)
- acoustics
- apply restoration techniques
- create musical instrument parts
- decorate musical instruments
- design musical instruments
- estimate restoration costs
- estimate value of musical instruments
- evaluate restoration procedures
- history of musical instruments
- metalworking
- musical instrument accessories
- organic building materials
- pass on trade techniques
- play musical instruments
- trade in musical instruments
- verify product specifications
- woodturning
O*NET equivalents
From the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, strongest match first. A broader occupation takes in this one; a narrower one is a part of it.
Closest occupations
Compare any occupation →ESCO occupations that share the most of this occupation's 12 essential skills. A plain count, not a hidden score.
keyboard musical instrument maker
8 shared · 5 more of its owntune keyboard music instruments, tuning techniques, assemble musical instrument parts, musical instruments materials
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stringed musical instrument maker
8 shared · 6 more of its owntune stringed musical instruments, tuning techniques, assemble musical instrument parts, musical instruments materials
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piano maker
8 shared · 9 more of its owntune keyboard music instruments, tuning techniques, assemble musical instrument parts, musical instruments materials
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harp maker
8 shared · 11 more of its owntune stringed musical instruments, tuning techniques, assemble musical instrument parts, musical instruments materials
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harpsichord maker
8 shared · 11 more of its owntune keyboard music instruments, tuning techniques, assemble musical instrument parts, musical instruments materials
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organ builder
8 shared · 12 more of its owntune keyboard music instruments, tuning techniques, assemble musical instrument parts, musical instruments materials
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electronic musical instrument maker
7 shared · 5 more of its ownrewire electronic musical instruments, tuning techniques, assemble musical instrument parts, musical instruments materials
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guitar maker
7 shared · 14 more of its owntune stringed musical instruments, tuning techniques, assemble musical instrument parts, musical instruments materials
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