Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a musical instrument technician can go next

5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a musical instrument technician already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

Musical instrument technicians maintain, tune and repair musical instruments such as pianos, pipe organs, band instruments, violins and other instruments.

Also known as instrument repairer, musical instrument fixer, piano tuner, musical instrument repair specialist, musical instrument repairer, organ repairer, musical instrument repairman, instrument repairman, musical instrument tuner, musical instrument restorer, musical instrument restoration specialist, musical instrument repair technician.

Craft and related trades workers 29 skills on file 5 career moves 5 above 60% overlap Closest: electronic musical instrument maker, 77%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
electronic musical instrument… 77% covered idiophone musical instruments… 72% covered membranophone musical instrum… 68% covered keyboard musical instrument m… 67% covered harpsichord maker 65% covered musical instrument techni… You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from musical instrument technician, each one a link to that move’s record. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a musical instrument technician already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · What the job itself asks for

A musical instrument technician needs 12 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • prevent technical problems of musical instruments constructing
  • rewire electronic musical instruments working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • tune keyboard music instruments communication, collaboration and creativity
  • tune stringed musical instruments communication, collaboration and creativity
  • tuning techniques arts and humanities
  • assemble musical instrument parts handling and moving
  • musical instruments materials arts and humanities
  • restore musical instruments handling and moving
  • repair musical instruments handling and moving
  • maintain musical instruments handling and moving
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a musical instrument technician does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

Index

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Musical instrument technician is filed under Craft and related trades workers, ISCO major group 7. The full index lists all ten groups.

Note

How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a musical instrument technician’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.