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Musical Instrument Repairers and Tuners
Repair percussion, stringed, reed, or wind instruments. May specialize in one area, such as piano tuning.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Adjust string tensions to tune instruments, using hand tools and electronic tuning devices.Mostly human for now
- 02Compare instrument pitches with tuning tool pitches to tune instruments.Mostly human for now
- 03Play instruments to evaluate their sound quality and to locate any defects.Mostly human for now
- 04Disassemble instruments and parts for repair and adjustment.Mostly human for now
- 05Repair or replace musical instrument parts and components, such as strings, bridges, felts, and keys, using hand and power tools.Mostly human for now
- 06Reassemble instruments following repair, using hand tools and power tools and glue, hair, yarn, resin, or clamps, and lubricate instruments as necessary.Mostly human for now
- 07Inspect instruments to locate defects, and to determine their value or the level of restoration required.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 08Shape old parts and replacement parts to improve tone or intonation, using hand tools, lathes, or soldering irons.Mostly human for now
- 09String instruments, and adjust trusses and bridges of instruments to obtain specified string tensions and heights.Mostly human for now
- 10Repair cracks in wood or metal instruments, using pinning wire, lathes, fillers, clamps, or soldering irons.Mostly human for now
Tasks from O*NET® 31.0 (US Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0, changed by us), most important first. “Already use” comes from Anthropic’s data on real work chats with Claude; “could speed up” from task ratings made with GPT-4 in 2023.
Four studies, side by side
None is a forecast of job lossToo little dataNot enough work use was seen to measure. This does not mean the job is safe from AI.Anthropic, 2026
2%of this job’s tasks an AI model could do in half the time, counting tasks that need extra tools as half (rated in 2023).Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock, 2023
Above 44% of jobsin how often and how well AI helped with this job’s work in Microsoft Copilot chats (2024 data).Microsoft Research (Tomlinson et al.), 2025
Above 47% of jobsin how much of this job’s physical work robots have been shown to do, from factories to homes (2026).Anthropic, 2026
Your human edge
The main tasks with no real AI use seen and no big speed-up expected. This is where your skill counts most today.
- Adjust string tensions to tune instruments, using hand tools and electronic tuning devices.
- Compare instrument pitches with tuning tool pitches to tune instruments.
- Play instruments to evaluate their sound quality and to locate any defects.