Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a piano maker can go next

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

Piano makers create and assemble parts to make pianos according to specified instructions or diagrams. They sand wood, tune, test and inspect the finished instrument.

Also known as piano technician, piano tester, piano craftswoman, piano craftsman, piano maker/technician, piano maker/tuner, piano maker/inspector, piano builder.

Craft and related trades workers 38 skills on file 5 career moves 5 above 60% overlap Closest: organ builder, 80%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
organ builder 80% covered stringed musical instrument m… 79% covered violin maker 79% covered guitar maker 78% covered wind musical instrument maker 77% covered piano maker You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from piano maker, 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 piano maker 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 piano maker needs 17 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
  • produce piano components handling and moving
  • tune keyboard music instruments communication, collaboration and creativity
  • make bowstrings handling and moving
  • tuning techniques arts and humanities
  • assemble musical instrument parts handling and moving
  • create 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 piano maker does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

Index

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Piano maker 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 piano maker’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.