Also called: Organ Technician
Builds, restores, and tunes giant pipe organs in churches and concert halls.
Organ builders carve wooden pipes, solder metal ones, wire thousands of valves, and climb inside organs to tune them. Some organs have more than 10,000 pipes.
Estimate; tiny trade.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Apprenticeship, about 4 years after high school. Apprenticeship at an organ-building shop.
Ways in: Apprenticeship, On-the-job training. Training cost: Get paid while you train.
Shrinking. No separate BLS projection; estimate based on related occupations.
Low risk for 10 years. Organ building is hand craft in wood and metal for a shrinking market; AI isn't a factor, church budgets are.
Classes: Woodshop, Music/piano, Physics (sound), Metal shop.
Official data: O*NET occupation 51-7099.
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