Where a wind musical instrument maker can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a wind musical instrument maker already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Wind musical instrument makers create and assemble parts to make wind instruments according to specified instructions and diagrams. They measure and cut the tubing for the resonator, assemble parts such as braces, slides, valves, piston, bell heads and mouth pieces, test and inspect the finished instrument.
Also known as brass instrument builder, woodwind instrument builder, brass instrument craftswoman, brass instrument assembler, brass instrument craftsman, woodwind instrument craftsman, woodwind instrument craftswoman, brass instrument maker, wind instrument maker, woodwind instrument maker, woodwind instrument assembler, wind musical instrument builder.
Craft and related trades workers 41 skills on file 5 career moves 5 above 60% overlap Closest: membranophone musical instruments maker, 80%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 1 · Within reach
Table 2 · What the job itself asks for
A wind musical instrument maker 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.
- produce wind musical instrument components 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
- decorate musical instruments communication, collaboration and creativity
- repair musical instruments handling and moving
- maintain musical instruments handling and moving
- organic building materials engineering, manufacturing and construction
- musical instruments arts and humanities
Table 3 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a wind musical instrument maker does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- guitar maker 78% covered · difficulty 25
- harpsichord maker 78% covered · difficulty 24.7
- keyboard musical instrument maker 78% covered · difficulty 24.7
- stringed musical instrument maker 78% covered · difficulty 25
- violin maker 78% covered · difficulty 25
- idiophone musical instruments maker 77% covered · difficulty 26.7
- membranophone musical instruments maker 77% covered · difficulty 26.3
- organ builder 77% covered · difficulty 26.5
- piano maker 77% covered · difficulty 26.5
- harp maker 75% covered · difficulty 28.2
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Wind musical instrument maker is filed under Craft and related trades workers, ISCO major group 7. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a wind 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.