Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a stringed musical instrument maker can go next

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

Stringed musical instrument makers create and assemble parts to create stringed instruments according to specified instructions or diagrams. They sand wood, measure and attach strings, test quality of strings and inspect the finished instrument.

Also known as viola maker, viola builder, double bass builder, cello builder, lute builder, double bass maker, cello maker, stringed instrument maker, stringed musical instrument builder, luthier, lute maker.

Craft and related trades workers 50 skills on file 5 career moves 5 above 60% overlap Closest: keyboard musical instrument maker, 82%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
wind musical instrument maker 78% covered membranophone musical instrum… 77% covered organ builder 76% covered musical instrument technician 81% covered keyboard musical instrument m… 82% covered stringed musical instrume… You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from stringed musical instrument 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 stringed musical instrument 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 stringed musical instrument maker needs 14 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
  • tune stringed musical 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
  • decorate musical instruments communication, collaboration and creativity
  • 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 stringed musical instrument maker does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

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Stringed musical instrument 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 stringed musical instrument 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.