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Piano Technician Duties and Responsibilities

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Purpose of Classification:

Repairs, tunes, voices, regulates action, and may rebuild vertical and grand pianos using specialized tools and gauges. Presents lectures to classes on piano tuning or related subject.

Distinguishing Characteristics:

This is a specialized classification and not part of a series.

Examples of Duties:

  • Tunes and voices instruments to a high level of musical excellence, demonstrating discretion and judgment relative to the artistic need of faculty, students, and visiting artists; supports evening and weekend recitals.
     
  • Regulates and adjusts piano actions accurately to specifications or alters scientifically to optimize performance.
     
  • Restores instruments, including analyzing, re-scaling, and redesigning piano components beyond normal factory specifications; rebuilds instruments to include all phases of sounding board, wrestplank, bridge, and complete action mechanism replacement.
     
  • Maintains a database for inventory control and service schedules.
     
  • Presents lectures to University classes on piano technology.
     
  • Moves pianos to different locations as needed.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

  • Knowledge of institutional settings.
     
  • General music background.
     
  • Knowledge and skill in soundboard and action replacement.
     
  • Knowledge of Steinway and Sons manufacturing and service procedures.
     
  • Knowledge and skill in structural rebuilding and action replacement.
     
  • Skill in both verbal and written communication.
     
  • Knowledge of basic computer literacy.
     
  • Skill in leading the activities of self and others.
     
  • Ability to fine tune aurally.

Minimum Qualifications:

Five years' experience as a Registered Piano Technician with a proven record of concert experience; OR, Any equivalent combination of experience and/or education from which comparable knowledge, skills, and abilities have been achieved.

 

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