Great artisans are usually capable of:

• Using hands and arms in handling, installing, positioning, and moving materials.
• Performing precise and skillful manipulation of small objects.
• Being active and proactive in regards to physical activities that require considerable use of your arms and legs and moving your whole body, such as climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, stooping, and handling materials.

Controllers are expected to be good at:

• Using either control mechanisms or direct physical activity to operate manufacturing systems.
• Working with hand operated industrial machines and power tools.
• Adjusting knobs, levers, and physical or touch sensitive buttons in industrial devices.
• Running, maneuvering, navigating, or driving vehicles or mechanized equipment, such as forklifts, passenger vehicles, aircraft, or watercraft.

• Playing instruments for evaluating their sound quality and for locating any defects.
• Adjusting string tensions for tuning instruments, using hand tools and electronic tuning devices.
• Disassembling instruments and parts for repairing and adjustment.
• Inspecting instruments for locating defects, and for determining their value or the levels of restoration required.
• Repairing cracks in wood or metal instruments, using pinning wire, lathes, fillers, clamps, or soldering irons.
• Reassembling instruments following repairing, using hand tools and power tools and glues, hairs, yarns, resins, or clamps, and lubricating instruments as necessary.
• Comparing instrument pitches with tuning tool pitches for tuning instruments.
• Stringing instruments, and adjusting trusses and bridges of instruments for obtaining specified string tensions and heights.
• Repairing or replacing musical instrument parts and components, such as strings, bridges, felts, and keys, using hand and power tools.