Strike wood, fiberglass, or metal bars of instruments, and use tuned blocks, stroboscopes, or electronic tuners to evaluate tones made by instruments.

“Strike wood, fiberglass, or metal bars of instruments, and use tuned blocks, stroboscopes, or electronic tuners to evaluate tones made by instruments.” is a supplemental task performed by Musical Instrument Repairers and Tuners. Among the occupation's 37 rated tasks, workers place it 24th by importance (#14 most important). About 27% of workers say it is relevant to their job.

This is a single occupation-specific task statement from O*NET. The figures below describe how central the task is to the job and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the task will be automated.

Work activities this task rolls up to

O*NET groups concrete tasks into broader work activities shared across many occupations.

• Test performance of equipment or systems. in Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Materials
• Adjust equipment to ensure adequate performance. in Handling and Moving Objects

AI exposure

The OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rates this task E0. No direct exposure — current language models give little or no time savings on this task.

Exposure measures whether a model could meaningfully speed the task up — it is an estimate of overlap with model capabilities, not a measure of whether the work will be done by software. The study's intermediate score (β) for this task is 0.00. Automation potential label: T0.

Other tasks in this occupation

• Align pads and keys on reed or wind instruments. · importance 4.9
• Adjust string tensions to tune instruments, using hand tools and electronic tuning devices. · importance 4.9
• Solder posts and parts to hold them in their proper places. · importance 4.8
• Compare instrument pitches with tuning tool pitches to tune instruments. · importance 4.7
• Play instruments to evaluate their sound quality and to locate any defects. · importance 4.7
• Disassemble instruments and parts for repair and adjustment. · importance 4.6
• Repair or replace musical instrument parts and components, such as strings, bridges, felts, and keys, using hand and power tools. · importance 4.6
• Reassemble instruments following repair, using hand tools and power tools and glue, hair, yarn, resin, or clamps, and lubricate instruments as necessary. · importance 4.5
• Remove dents and burrs from metal instruments, using mallets and burnishing tools. · importance 4.3
• Inspect instruments to locate defects, and to determine their value or the level of restoration required. · importance 4.3
• Adjust felt hammers on pianos to increase tonal mellowness or brilliance, using sanding paddles, lacquer, or needles. · importance 4.3
• Remove irregularities from tuning pins, strings, and hammers of pianos, using wood blocks or filing tools. · importance 4.2
• Shape old parts and replacement parts to improve tone or intonation, using hand tools, lathes, or soldering irons. · importance 4.1
• String instruments, and adjust trusses and bridges of instruments to obtain specified string tensions and heights. · importance 4.0

See all tasks on the Musical Instrument Repairers and Tuners page.

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

• O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

@misc{singulariki-task-11896,
  title  = {Strike wood, fiberglass, or metal bars of instruments, and use tuned blocks, stroboscopes, or electronic tuners to evaluate tones made by instruments.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/tasks/task-11896}
}