Also called: Piano Tuner, Registered Piano Technician
Tunes, repairs and rebuilds pianos for homes, schools, concert halls and recording studios.
You tune a concert grand before a performance, adjusting about 230 strings by ear and with an app. Then you drive to a school to fix a sticky key and replace a broken hammer. Some technicians rebuild antique pianos in their own shop.
Concert technicians and self-employed techs with large client lists earn more.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Certificate, about 1 year after high school. Piano technology school or apprenticeship; certification from the Piano Technicians Guild.
Ways in: Trade school, Apprenticeship, Certification, Self-taught. Training cost: Under $15k.
Majors to look at: Piano Technology (trade school), Music.
Growing slowly (about 1% over 10 years). BLS projects little change for musical instrument repairers overall.
Low risk for 10 years. Tuning apps help, but repairing and regulating pianos is hands-on craft work done on-site.
Classes: Music, Shop class, Physics.
Official data: O*NET occupation 49-9063.
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