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49-9063.00 — Musical Instrument Repairers and Tuners

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Technology Skills
Analytical or scientific software
  • Katsura Shareware KS Strobe Tuner
  • Katsura Shareware ProLevel
  • Katsura Shareware SoundFrames
  • Mensurix Audio
  • Reyburn CyberTuner
  • TuneLab
  • Tunic OnlyPure
  • Veritune Verituner
Tools Used
Air hoses
Alcohol lamp
  • Alcohol lamps
Alignment jig
  • Alignment jigs
  • Key button jigs
  • Neck jigs
Allen wrench
  • Allen wrenches
Angle gauge
  • Flute gauges
  • Hammer angle gauges
Anvils
  • Bench anvils
Applicator brushes
  • Glue brushes
Arbors
Artist knives
  • Felt cutting knives
Audio mixing consoles
  • Looping machines
Automatic lathe or chucking machine
  • Bench lathes
Awls
  • Pointed awls
Belt sander
  • Belt sanders
Bench grinder
  • Bench grinders
Blow pipe
  • Blowpipes
Blow torch
  • Blow torches
  • Butane heaters
  • Pencil torches
Boring tool
  • Bore tools
Burnisher
  • Burnishing rings
  • Flute body mandrels
  • Flute head mandrels
  • Hand burnishers
  • Scraper burnishers
C clamps
  • Adjustable C clamps
  • Deep throat C clamps
Cable bender
  • Bending irons
  • Damper spoon benders
Calibration weights or weight sets
  • Gram weights
Calipers
  • Dial calipers
Center punch
  • Center pin punches
Chamfering machine
  • Chamfer tools
Cleaning brushes
  • Bench brushes
  • Bore cleaning brushes
  • Brass mouthpiece brushes
  • Valve brushes
Cold chisels
Compressed air gun
  • Air dusting guns
Conduit benders
  • Heat staking tools
Countersink tool or counterbore tool
  • Countersinks
Curved nose pliers
Depth gauges
  • Fret slot depth gauges
Diagonal cut pliers
  • Diagonal cutters
Die stocks
Dip tanks
  • Chemical dip tanks
Disc sander
  • Disc sanders
Dollies
Drill gauge
  • Drill gauges
  • Wire drill gauges
Drilling machines
  • Drill presses
Electronic instrument tuner
  • Digital tuners
  • Electronic tuners
End cut pliers
  • End cut nippers
Extending clamp
  • Cam clamps
Feeler gauges
Flaring tool
  • Tubing shrinkers
Flat nose pliers
  • Duck bill pliers
  • Jaw pliers
  • Long flat nose pliers
Fluorescent lamps
  • Leak lights
Gas burners
  • Bunsen burners
Gas compressors
  • Sprayer compressors
General purpose motor AC
  • Bench motors
Glue guns
Guide jig
  • Post drilling jigs
Hacksaw
  • Hacksaws
Hammers
  • Dent hammers
Hand clamps
  • Feeler gauge holders
  • Pin vises
  • Soldering clamps
Hand or push drill
  • Hammer head borers
  • Hand drills
Hand reamer
  • Barrel reamers
  • Broaches
  • Flange bushing reamers
  • Hammer head reamers
  • Jack spring hole reamers
  • Pin hole reamers
  • Socket reamers
Hand sander
  • Fret dressing sticks
Hand sprayers
  • Precision spray guns
Heat guns
Heating or drying equipment or accessories
  • Pad cup heaters
Height gauges
  • Height measurement gauges
  • Key dip blocks
  • Neck relief gauges
  • Nut slotting gauges
  • String height gauges
  • Top deflection gauges
Hex keys
  • Ball-end hex keys
  • Bracket hex wrenches
  • Hex drivers
Hold down clamps
  • Violin clamps
Hole saws
  • Tone hole cutters
Hook wrenches
  • Damper rod hooks
Humidifiers
  • Guitar humidifiers
Humidity sensor
  • Digital humidity gauges
Incandescent lamps
Inspection mirror
  • Inspection mirrors
  • Valve mirrors
Ironing machines or presses
  • Flute pad irons
Jacks
  • Grand piano jacks
  • Scissor jacks
Knife file
  • Nut files
Laboratory forceps
  • Alligator forceps
  • Curved nose forceps
Laboratory heaters
  • Glue pots
Laboratory spoon
  • Wax spoons
Lapping machine
  • Valve lapping machines
Levels
  • Clarinet pad leveling tools
  • Fingerboard levelers
  • Flute key leveling tools
  • Piano leveling devices
  • Sharp leveling and key-dip devices
Lighters
  • Spark lighters
Locking pliers
  • Vise grip pliers
Loupes
Magnetic tools
  • Pencil magnets
  • Telescoping magnetic pickup tools
Magnetizer demagnetizer devices
  • Magnetizers
Magnifiers
Mallets
Manual wire straighteners
  • Hart spring tools
Metal cutters
  • Spring cutters
Micrometers
Multimeters
Needle file
  • Needle files
Needlenose pliers
  • Chain nose pliers
Nut drivers
Oil lubricator
  • Bench oilers
  • Oilers
  • Precision oilers
Packing hooks
  • String hooks
Planes
  • Hand planers
  • Hand planes
Positioning jig
  • Saddle locating jigs
  • Soldering jigs
Power buffers
  • Buffing machines
Power drills
Power routers
  • Routers
Power sanders
Power saws
  • Portable band saws
Precision file
  • Fret end dressing files
  • Fret files
  • Razor files
Pressure indicators
  • Mag machines
Protractors
  • Hammer angle protractors
Pry bars
  • Punching lifters
  • String lifters
Pullers
  • Agraffe removers
  • Piano stringing hooks
Punches or nail sets or drifts
  • Arch punches
  • Piano tuning pin punches
  • Punches
  • Spring punches
  • Tuning pin bushing punches
Radius gauge
  • Radius gauges
  • Understring radius gauges
Rotary paper or fabric cutter
  • Felt cutters
Round file
  • Rat tail files
Rulers
  • Regulating gauges
  • String action gauges
  • String spacing rules
Sand blasting machine
  • Sand blasters
Sash clamp
  • Fingerboard band clamps
Saw blades
  • Screw slotters
Saws
  • Adjustable fret slotting saws
  • Bridge pin hole slotting saws
  • Cross-cut saws
  • Gauged saws
  • Japanese fret saws
  • Pearl cutting saws
  • Refret saws
  • Rip saws
Screw clamps
  • Edging clamps
  • Soundhole clamps
  • Spool clamps
Screw extractors
Screwdrivers
  • Flange screwdrivers
  • Grand screwdrivers
  • Regulating screwdrivers
  • Slotted screwdrivers
Scribers
  • Magnetic scribers
Shears
  • Curved nose scissors
Soldering iron
  • Soldering irons
Spacers or standoffs
  • Hammer butt spacers
  • Piano key spacers
Specialty wrenches
  • Action regulators
  • Bushing inserters
  • Butt plate inserters
  • Capstan regulators
  • Capstan screw wrenches
  • Damper regulators
  • Endpin jack wrenches
  • Gripper truss rod wrenches
  • Hammer shank reducers
  • Jack screw regulators
  • Key bushing tighteners
  • Key easing tools
  • Lost motion regulators
  • Output jack wrenches
  • Piano regulators
  • Pocket truss rod wrenches
  • Tuning wrenches
Spray gun
  • Automated sprayers
Straight edges
  • Fret rockers
Surface thermometers
T handle tap wrenches
  • Tap wrenches
Telescoping gauge
  • Telescoping gauges
Tenoner or tenoning machine
  • Tenon expanders
Tension testers
  • Gram tension gauges
Thickness measuring devices
  • Screw gauges
  • Tuning pin gauges
Thread counters or gauges
  • Screw pitch thread gauges
Threading die hand tool
  • Thread cutting tools
Tinners snips
Tongs
  • Soldering clips
Torque wrenches
Torx keys
  • Torx drivers
Tube bending machine
  • Dent machines
Tuning bars
  • Tuning hammers
  • Tuning levers
Tuning forks
Tuning pins
  • Piano tuning pin cranks
  • Piano tuning pin extractors
  • Tuning pin setters
Tweezers
  • Cross lock tweezers
Utility knives
  • Purfling cutters
  • Seam separation knives
Web clamp
  • Band clamps
Welding or soldering kit
  • Heat control units
Wire brushes
  • File cleaners
Wire cutters
Wire gauge
  • Music wire gauges
Wire wrapping tool
  • Coil makers
Wood chisels
Work benches
  • Bench blocks
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