Luthiers

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

• Gustave Bernadel
• Charles Collin-Mezin, Jr.
• Charles Jean Baptiste Collin-Mezin
• Nicolas Lupot
• Etienne Vatelot
• Jean Baptiste Vuillaume and family

Hungarian

• Otto Erdesz

German

• the Klotz family
• Karl Hermann (Andreas Morelli)

American

• Scott Cao
• Brian Skarstad

Austrian

• Jacob Stainer
• David Tecchler
• Leopold Widhalm

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)