Builds, tunes, and restores giant pipe organs in churches and concert halls.
You climb inside an organ chamber with thousands of pipes, adjust them one by one while a partner plays notes, and rebuild a leaky wind chest.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Apprenticeship, about 4 years after high school. Learned through apprenticeship at an organ-building shop.
Ways in: Apprenticeship, On-the-job training. Training cost: Get paid while you train.
Majors to look at: Woodworking, Music.
Growing slowly. No separate BLS projection for this specialty; rating is an estimate based on industry trends.
Low risk for 10 years. Restoring and tuning church organs is a rare hand craft with no automated replacement.
Classes: Music, Woodshop, Physics.
Official data: O*NET occupation 49-9063.
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