A professional who casts metal into sheets and forms metal pipes for pipe organs, using handtools and knowledge of metal properties and pipe making. Responsibilities include:

• Melts mixture of lead and tin in melting pot.
• Pours molten metal onto flat table to form sheets.
• Brushes sizing onto sheets and cuts sheets, using hook-knife and power shears.
• Hand-rolls sheets into tubes on mandrel, using handtools.
• Scrapes edges, using handtool to obtain required angle for soldering and solders seam.
• Places pipe on mandrel and hammers pipe, using mallet to form and finish mouth.
• Hand-rolls annealed sheet zinc in similar manner to form larger pipes.