As of June 2026, Musical Instrument Repairers and Tuners has an AI-exposure score of 44/100 (Moderate exposure) on the AI-Safe Careers index, blending O*NET tasks, the Anthropic Economic Index, the Penn/OpenAI study, and BLS data. This is an estimate of task exposure, not a prediction of job loss.
Musical Instrument Repairers and Tuners
More exposed than 19% of the roles we track. Median pay ~US$46,420. About 600 projected openings a year (BLS 2024–34 — growth plus replacement).
Pay & demand figures are US medians (BLS, in USD) — your local figures will differ. Your exposure score applies broadly.
How you compare to similar Installation & Repair roles
Your tasks, by AI exposure
No automatable tasks identified for this role — its real, individually-assessed tasks consistently read as durable (65%).
- Remove irregularities from tuning pins, strings, and hammers of pianos, using wood blocks or filing tools.
- Adjust string tensions to tune instruments, using hand tools and electronic tuning devices.
- Adjust felt hammers on pianos to increase tonal mellowness or brilliance, using sanding paddles, lacquer, or needles.
- String instruments, and adjust trusses and bridges of instruments to obtain specified string tensions and heights.
- Compare instrument pitches with tuning tool pitches to tune instruments.
- Solder posts and parts to hold them in their proper places.
- Play instruments to evaluate their sound quality and to locate any defects.
- Repair or replace musical instrument parts and components, such as strings, bridges, felts, and keys, using hand and power tools.
- Test tubes and pickups in electronic amplifier units, and solder parts and connections as necessary.
- Disassemble instruments and parts for repair and adjustment.
- Repair cracks in wood or metal instruments, using pinning wire, lathes, fillers, clamps, or soldering irons.
- Shape old parts and replacement parts to improve tone or intonation, using hand tools, lathes, or soldering irons.
- Align pads and keys on reed or wind instruments.
- Reassemble instruments following repair, using hand tools and power tools and glue, hair, yarn, resin, or clamps, and lubricate instruments as necessary.
- Make wood replacement parts, using woodworking machines and hand tools.
- Mix and measure glue that will be used for instrument repair.
- Polish instruments, using rags and polishing compounds, buffing wheels, or burnishing tools.
- Remove dents and burrs from metal instruments, using mallets and burnishing tools.
- Refinish instruments to protect and decorate them, using hand tools, buffing tools, and varnish.
- Inspect instruments to locate defects, and to determine their value or the level of restoration required.
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