Also called: Organ Builder, Organ Technician
Builds, restores and maintains huge pipe organs in churches, universities and concert halls.
You climb inside a three-story organ to replace leather valves, then voice a metal pipe by shaving its mouth until it sings the right note. A new organ can take a shop years to build and have thousands of pipes.
Estimated; a very small craft field.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Apprenticeship, about 3 years after high school. Apprenticeship at an organ-building shop; some study woodworking or music first.
Ways in: Apprenticeship, On-the-job training. Training cost: Get paid while you train.
Majors to look at: Organ Building (apprenticeship), Woodworking, Music.
Growing slowly. No BLS projection; few shops remain, but skilled builders are scarce.
Low risk for 10 years. Building and restoring organs is rare hand craft combining woodworking, metalwork and music.
Classes: Woodshop class, Music, Physics.
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