A professional who operates machine to cut and deburr brass wind instrument tubes, and controls equipment to anneal tubes. Respnsibilities include:

• Sets length gauge of saw and pushes tubes into rotating blade to cut tubes to specified length.
• Inserts burring tool into chuck of turning lathe and holds tube ends against rotating burring tool to remove burs.
• Places tubes in oven or on sprockets of wheel that revolves between two torches to anneal tubes for ease of bending.
• May fill tube with pitch to facilitate bending tube manually around forming block.
• Places tube in oven to melt pitch for removal from tube.
• May place tube in balling-out mold and push steel balls through tube to size part or remove wrinkles.