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A luthier is someone who builds or repairs stringed instruments, that are either bowed or plucked.
These range from guitars to violins.
The French word lutherie, used in both French and English, refers to the art of constructing string instruments.
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Well-known luthiers
Violins, violas, cellos, basses, bows
- Italian
- the Amati family
- Bergonzi
- Desiderio Quercetani
- Nicolò Gagliano
- Matteo Goffriller
- Giovanni Battista Guadagnini
- the Guarneri family
- Stefano Scarampella
- Antonio Stradivari
- Domenico Montagnana
- Carlo Giuseppe Testore
- French
- Hungarian
- Otto Erdesz
- German
- the Klotz family
- Karl Hermann (Andreas Morelli)
- American
- Austrian
- Swiss
- Johannes Finkel (bows)
Guitars
- and other plucked stringed instruments
- John D'Angelico
- James D'Aquisto
- Richard Echeverria
- Leo Fender
- Harry Fleishman
- Enrique Garcia
- Orville Gibson
- Friedrich Gretsch
- Santos Hernandez
- George Lowden
- Christian Frederick Martin
- Bill and Reg May (the Maton company)
- Monty Novotny
- Les Paul
- Jose Romanillos
- Paul Reed Smith
- Elmer Stromberg and his father Charles Stromberg
- Carl Thompson
- Antonio Torres
- Dean Zalinsky
- Ned Steinberger
- bob benedetto
- bozo
- lloyd loar
- paul bigsby
- the dopyera brothers
External links
- The Violin Site - Violin Making (http://www.theviolinsite.com/violin_making/index.html)
- The history of the violin (http://www.sprengerviolins.com/e/violin_history.htm) - A quick overview about making and history of the violin, including answers to questions such us "Why old master instruments sound so good"
- http://www.frets.com
- Musical Instrument Makers Forum (http://www.mimf.com)
- Project Guitar (http://projectguitar.com/)
- The Luthier Directory (http://www.guitar-builder.com/)
- Cozio.com - A database of many old Italian instruments (http://www.cozio.com)bg:Лютиер