Career Overlap Transition record
RecordMove

Guitar maker to membranophone musical instruments maker

A guitar maker already meets 76% of what the membranophone musical instruments maker role asks for. The move turns on 4 required skills not yet in the profile.

Fig. 1 · Skill transfer ESCO v1.2.1 · directional
From guitar maker
76 % overlap
Very strong match
To membranophone musical instruments maker
29 You already bring
4 Still to learn
37 Skills in the target role2
Learning distance Short step

29.6/ 100

1 How much of what a membranophone musical instruments maker is expected to do is already part of a guitar maker’s work. Directional: the figure for the reverse move differs, because moving into a speciality is not the same problem as moving out of one. 2 Every skill the membranophone musical instruments maker role is recorded as needing, required and optional together. What these numbers mean.

Why

Why this move works

A membranophone musical instruments maker role treats 10 of its required skills as things a guitar maker already does. You would walk in with these on day one.

  • apply a protective layer
  • assemble musical instrument parts
  • create musical instrument parts
  • maintain musical instruments
  • metalworking
  • musical instruments

What stands in the way is 4 required skills the profile does not yet cover. Table 3 groups them; Table 4 says which to take first.

Table 2

Table 2 · What you already bring

Of the 29 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A membranophone musical instruments maker role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a guitar maker background worth leading with.

Skill the target role also needs Area
  • already held tuning techniques arts and humanities
  • already held assemble musical instrument parts handling and moving
  • already held create musical instrument parts handling and moving
  • already held musical instruments materials arts and humanities
  • already held design musical instruments communication, collaboration and creativity
  • already held musical instrument accessories arts and humanities

All 29 carried skills, including the 10 the membranophone musical instruments maker role treats as required.

Table 3

Table 3 · What you may need to learn

The 8 missing skills fall into 6 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, numbered in the order worth working in. Areas carrying the most required skills come first, and inside each one the required skills sit above the optional ones. Nothing here is a verdict on you: it is a list of what this particular job asks for that your current one does not.

Skill to pick up Tier
01 arts and humanities 2 required
  • still to learn types of drums required
  • still to learn types of membranes required
02 engineering, manufacturing and construction 1 required
  • still to learn woodturning required
03 handling and moving 1 required
  • still to learn produce drum components required
04 constructing 2 supplementary
  • optional, not held operate soldering equipment optional
  • optional, not held operate welding equipment optional
05 business, administration and law 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held sales promotion techniques optional
06 working with machinery and specialised equipment 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held operate wood sawing equipment optional
Table 4

Table 4 · Where to start

The 3 entries a membranophone musical instruments maker role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.

Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.

Appendix

Appendix · The rest of the record

All 29 skills that carry over
Skill Type
  • already held apply a protective layer skill
  • already held assemble musical instrument parts skill
  • already held create musical instrument parts skill
  • already held maintain musical instruments skill
  • already held metalworking knowledge
  • already held musical instruments knowledge
  • already held musical instruments materials knowledge
  • already held organic building materials knowledge
  • already held repair musical instruments skill
  • already held tuning techniques knowledge
  • already held acoustics knowledge
  • already held apply restoration techniques skill
  • already held conservation techniques knowledge
  • already held create smooth wood surface skill
  • already held decorate musical instruments skill
  • already held design musical instruments skill
  • already held estimate restoration costs skill
  • already held estimate value of musical instruments skill
  • already held evaluate restoration procedures skill
  • already held history of musical instruments knowledge
  • already held identify customer's needs skill
  • already held join wood elements skill
  • already held musical instrument accessories knowledge
  • already held pass on trade techniques skill
  • already held restore musical instruments skill
  • already held select restoration activities skill
  • already held technical drawings knowledge
  • already held trade in musical instruments skill
  • already held verify product specifications skill
4 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
Skill to pick up Tier
  • optional, not held sales promotion techniques optional
  • optional, not held operate soldering equipment optional
  • optional, not held operate welding equipment optional
  • optional, not held operate wood sawing equipment optional
14 held skills the membranophone musical instruments maker role does not ask for
Skill Type
  • not needed by the target role 3D modelling knowledge
  • not needed by the target role dye wood skill
  • not needed by the target role make bowstrings skill
  • not needed by the target role manipulate wood skill
  • not needed by the target role play musical instruments skill
  • not needed by the target role produce guitar components skill
  • not needed by the target role sand wood skill
  • not needed by the target role set up the controller of a machine skill
  • not needed by the target role stain wood skill
  • not needed by the target role tune stringed musical instruments skill
  • not needed by the target role types of guitars knowledge
  • not needed by the target role types of strings knowledge
  • not needed by the target role types of wood knowledge
  • not needed by the target role wood cuts knowledge
4 gaps that are knowledge rather than practice

Knowledge gaps usually close through study. Practical skill gaps usually need something you can point at.

Skill to pick up Tier
  • still to learn types of drums required
  • still to learn woodturning required
  • still to learn types of membranes required
  • optional, not held sales promotion techniques optional
Index
FAQ

Common questions about this move

Can a guitar maker become a membranophone musical instruments maker?

Yes, and it is an adjacent move. A guitar maker already covers 76% of what a membranophone musical instruments maker is expected to do: 29 skills carry over, 10 of which the membranophone musical instruments maker role treats as required.

What skills does a guitar maker need to become a membranophone musical instruments maker?

4 required skills are missing, plus 4 optional ones. They fall into 6 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, led by arts and humanities. The single most important is produce drum components.

How hard is the move from guitar maker to membranophone musical instruments maker?

Its learning distance is 29.6 out of 100, which is the adjacent band. That accounts for both how much is missing and how specialised those skills are.

Note

How this record was compiled

Both occupations are taken from ESCO, which lists the skills and knowledge each occupation is expected to have and marks every one required or optional. Nothing here is a prediction about hiring, and nothing here knows that a particular employer wants a particular certificate. Treat Table 3 as a starting point for your own research rather than a syllabus. The full method states what these figures can and cannot tell you.