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A15M Electric Bass/String Bass Instrumentalist

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A Navy Enlisted Classification: a skill designation sailors hold in addition to their rating.

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Overview

An Electric Bass/String Bass Instrumentalist performs on primary or secondary instruments as a member of an authorized Navy band. The instrumentalist maintains assigned musical instruments and makes minor repairs to them.

Core Skills

  • Musical instrument maintenance and minor repairs

Civilian Career Paths

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Musicians and Singers

Playing electric bass or string bass in authorized Navy bands transfers directly to civilian instrumental ensemble performance.

How to prepare: Prepare an audition recording on your primary bass instrument for the ensembles you want to join.

What the civilian work involves
  • Perform before live audiences in concerts, recitals, educational presentations, and other social gatherings.
  • Specialize in playing a specific family of instruments or a particular type of music.

Musical Instrument Repairers and Tuners

Maintaining and making minor repairs to assigned Navy instruments provides a foundation for civilian instrument servicing.

How to prepare: Seek supervised repair-shop training in string-instrument adjustment and component replacement to build beyond the minor repairs documented in this specialty.

What the civilian work involves
  • Adjust string tensions to tune instruments, using hand tools and electronic tuning devices.
  • Play instruments to evaluate their sound quality and to locate any defects.
  • Repair or replace musical instrument parts and components, such as strings, bridges, felts, and keys, using hand and power tools.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Tunable Instrument Tuner

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (3 documents)
  1. NAVPERS 18068F Vol II (NEOCS, Jul 2026 edition): NEC A15M

    [1] NEC entry "A15M - Electric Bass/String Bass Instrumentalist"; cached text line 1511; NAVPERS 18068F Vol II, 2026-07 edition

    Supports: Musical instrument maintenance and minor repairs, Musicians and Singers (O*NET 27-2042.00), Musical Instrument Repairers and Tuners (O*NET 49-9063.00)

  2. O*NET: Musicians and Singers

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Musicians and Singers (O*NET 27-2042.00)

  3. O*NET: Musical Instrument Repairers and Tuners

    [3] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Musical Instrument Repairers and Tuners (O*NET 49-9063.00)

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