Luthier, the Glossary
A luthier is a craftsperson who builds or repairs string instruments.[1]
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109 relations: Adolph Rickenbacker, Aluminium, Andrea Amati, Antonio Amati, Antonio de Torres Jurado, Antonio Stradivari, Apprenticeship, Archlute, Archtop guitar, Artisan, Bartolomeo Cristofori, Bologna, Bow (music), Bow maker, Brescia, C. F. Martin & Company, Carlo Annibale Tononi, Carlo Antonio Testore, Carlo Bergonzi (luthier), Carlo Ferdinando Landolfi, Carlo Giuseppe Testore, Cello, Charles Jean Baptiste Collin-Mezin, Charles Mennégand, Christian Frederick Martin, Classical guitar, Craft, Cremona, Crwth, David Tecchler, DMOZ, Domenico Montagnana, Double bass, Electric guitar, Erhu, Experimental luthier, Füssen, Fender Jaguar, Fender Jazzmaster, Fender Stratocaster, Fiddle, Francesco Rugeri, French language, Frying Pan (guitar), Gasparo da Salò, Gasparo Duiffopruggar, George Beauchamp, Gibson Brands, Giovanni Battista Guadagnini, Giovanni Grancino, ... Expand index (59 more) »
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Adolph Rickenbacker
Adolph Rickenbacker (April 1, 1887 – March 21, 1976) was a Swiss-American production engineer and machinist who, together with George Beauchamp, created the first electric string instrument, and co-founded the Rickenbacker guitar company, also with Beauchamp.
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Aluminium
Aluminium (Aluminum in North American English) is a chemical element; it has symbol Al and atomic number 13.
Andrea Amati
Andrea Amati was a luthier, from Cremona, Italy.
Antonio Amati
Antonio Amati (– 1607) was an Italian luthier, active from 1560 to 1605.
Antonio de Torres Jurado
Antonio de Torres Jurado (13 June 1817 – 19 November 1892) was a Spanish guitarist and luthier, and "the most important Spanish guitar maker of the 19th century." It is with his designs that the first recognizably modern classical guitars are to be seen.
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Antonio Stradivari
Antonio Stradivari (also,; – 18 December 1737) was an Italian luthier and a craftsman of string instruments such as violins, cellos, guitars, violas and harps.
See Luthier and Antonio Stradivari
Apprenticeship
Apprenticeship is a system for training a new generation of practitioners of a trade or profession with on-the-job training and often some accompanying study (classroom work and reading).
See Luthier and Apprenticeship
Archlute
The archlute (archilaúd, arciliuto, Erzlaute) is a European plucked string instrument developed around 1600 as a compromise between the very large theorbo, the size and re-entrant tuning of which made for difficulties in the performance of solo music, and the Renaissance tenor lute, which lacked the bass range of the theorbo.
Archtop guitar
An archtop guitar is a hollow acoustic or semi-acoustic guitar with a full body and a distinctive arched top, whose sound is particularly popular with jazz, blues, and rockabilly players.
See Luthier and Archtop guitar
Artisan
An artisan (from artisan, artigiano) is a skilled craft worker who makes or creates material objects partly or entirely by hand.
Bartolomeo Cristofori
Bartolomeo Cristofori di Francesco (May 4, 1655 – January 27, 1731) was an Italian maker of musical instruments famous for inventing the piano.
See Luthier and Bartolomeo Cristofori
Bologna
Bologna (Bulåggna; Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region, in northern Italy.
Bow (music)
In music, a bow is a tensioned stick which has hair (usually horse-tail hair) coated in rosin (to facilitate friction) affixed to it.
Bow maker
A bow maker is a person who builds, repairs, and restores antique or modern bows for bowed string instruments. Luthier and bow maker are lutherie.
Brescia
Brescia (locally; Brèsa,; Brixia; Bressa) is a city and comune (municipality) in the region of Lombardy, in northern Italy.
C. F. Martin & Company
C.F. Martin & Company (often referred to as Martin) is an American guitar manufacturer established in 1833 by Christian Frederick Martin.
See Luthier and C. F. Martin & Company
Carlo Annibale Tononi
Carlo Annibale Tononi (1675–1730) was a luthier who trained and worked with his father in the Tononi family workshop in Bologna, Italy, until his father, Johannes Tononi, died in 1713.
See Luthier and Carlo Annibale Tononi
Carlo Antonio Testore
Carlo Antonio Testore (1687–1765) was a Milanese luthier.
See Luthier and Carlo Antonio Testore
Carlo Bergonzi (luthier)
Carlo Bergonzi (21 December 1683 – 9 February 1747) was an Italian luthier and is the first and most prominent member of the Bergonzi family, a distinguished group of luthiers from Cremona, Italy, a city with a rich tradition of stringed instrument makers.
See Luthier and Carlo Bergonzi (luthier)
Carlo Ferdinando Landolfi
Carlo Ferdinando Landolfi (c. 1714 – 1787) was an Italian master luthier who was active in the 18th century during the golden age of stringed instrument making.
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Carlo Giuseppe Testore
Carlo Giuseppe Testore (c. 1665–1738) was an Italian luthier, who worked in his later life in Milan.
See Luthier and Carlo Giuseppe Testore
Cello
The violoncello, often simply abbreviated as cello, is a bowed (sometimes plucked and occasionally hit) string instrument of the violin family.
Charles Jean Baptiste Collin-Mezin
Charles Jean Baptiste Collin-Mezin (1841–1923) was a French maker of violins, violas, cellos, basses and bows.
See Luthier and Charles Jean Baptiste Collin-Mezin
Charles Mennégand
Charles Mennégand (19 June 1822 – 9 January 1885) was a French luthier and a repairer of violins, violas, and cellos.
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Christian Frederick Martin
Christian Frederick Martin Sr. (Christian Friedrich Martin I.; January 31, 1796 – February 16, 1873) was a German-born American luthier who specialized in guitars and the founder of C. F. Martin & Company.
See Luthier and Christian Frederick Martin
Classical guitar
The classical guitar, also known as Spanish guitar, is a member of the guitar family used in classical music and other styles.
See Luthier and Classical guitar
Craft
A craft or trade is a pastime or an occupation that requires particular skills and knowledge of skilled work.
Cremona
Cremona (also;; Cremùna; Carmona) is a city and comune in northern Italy, situated in Lombardy, on the left bank of the Po river in the middle of the Pianura Padana (Po Valley).
Crwth
The crwth, also called a crowd or rote or crotta, is a bowed lyre, a type of stringed instrument, associated particularly with Welsh music, now archaic but once widely played in Europe.
David Tecchler
David Tecchler, sometimes also written Techler, Tekler, Deckler, Dechler, Decler, TecclerRené Vannes, Dictionnaire universel des luthiers, Bruxelles: Les Amis de la musique, 1951, p. 356 or Teckler, (1666–1748) was a German luthier, best known for his cellos and double basses.
See Luthier and David Tecchler
DMOZ
DMOZ (stylized dmoz in its logo; from directory.mozilla.org, an earlier domain name) was a multilingual open-content directory of World Wide Web links.
See Luthier and DMOZ
Domenico Montagnana
Domenico Montagnana (24 June 1686 – 6 March 1750) was an Italian master luthier based in Venice, Italy.
See Luthier and Domenico Montagnana
Double bass
The double bass, also known as the upright bass, the acoustic bass, or simply the bass, is the largest and lowest-pitched chordophone in the modern symphony orchestra (excluding rare additions such as the octobass).
Electric guitar
An electric guitar is a guitar that requires external amplification in order to be heard at typical performance volumes, unlike a standard acoustic guitar.
See Luthier and Electric guitar
Erhu
The is a Chinese two-stringed bowed musical instrument, more specifically a spike fiddle, which may also be called a southern fiddle, and is sometimes known in the Western world as the Chinese violin or a Chinese two-stringed fiddle.
See Luthier and Erhu
Experimental luthier
Experimental luthiers are luthiers who take part in alternative stringed instrument manufacturing (such as the guitar or violin) or create original string instruments altogether.
See Luthier and Experimental luthier
Füssen
Füssen is a town in Bavaria, Germany, in the district of Ostallgäu, situated one kilometre from the Austrian border.
Fender Jaguar
The Fender Jaguar is an electric guitar by Fender Musical Instruments characterized by an offset-waist body, a relatively unusual switching system with two separate circuits for lead and rhythm, and a short-scale 24" neck.
Fender Jazzmaster
The Fender Jazzmaster is an electric guitar designed as a more expensive sibling of the Fender Stratocaster.
See Luthier and Fender Jazzmaster
Fender Stratocaster
The Fender Stratocaster, colloquially known as the Strat, is a model of electric guitar designed between 1952 and 1954 by Leo Fender, Bill Carson, George Fullerton, and Freddie Tavares.
See Luthier and Fender Stratocaster
Fiddle
A fiddle is a bowed string musical instrument, most often a violin. Luthier and fiddle are violins.
Francesco Rugeri
Francesco Rugeri (Cremona, 1628; 28 October 1698), also known as Ruger, Rugier, Rugeri, Ruggeri, Ruggieri, Ruggerius, was the first of an important family of luthiers, the Casa Rugeri in Cremona, Italy.
See Luthier and Francesco Rugeri
French language
French (français,, or langue française,, or by some speakers) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.
See Luthier and French language
Frying Pan (guitar)
The Rickenbacker Electro A-22, nicknamed the "Frying Pan" is the first electric lap steel guitar, also widely considered to be the first commercially successful electric guitar.
See Luthier and Frying Pan (guitar)
Gasparo da Salò
Gasparo da Salò (20 May 154214 April 1609) is the name given to Gasparo Bertolotti, one of the earliest violin makers and an expert double bass player.
See Luthier and Gasparo da Salò
Gasparo Duiffopruggar
Gasparo Duiffopruggar (1514 –) was an instrument maker.
See Luthier and Gasparo Duiffopruggar
George Beauchamp
George Delmetia Beauchamp (March 18, 1899 – March 30, 1941) was an American inventor of musical instruments.
See Luthier and George Beauchamp
Gibson Brands
Gibson, Inc. (formerly Gibson Guitar Corporation and Gibson Brands Inc.) is an American manufacturer of guitars, other musical instruments, and professional audio equipment from Kalamazoo, Michigan, and now based in Nashville, Tennessee.
Giovanni Battista Guadagnini
Giovanni Battista Guadagnini (often shortened to G. B. Guadagnini; 23 June 1711 – 18 September 1786) was an Italian luthier, regarded as one of the finest craftsmen of string instruments in history.
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Giovanni Grancino
Giovanni Grancino (1637–1709), son of Andrea Grancino, was one of the early Milanese luthiers, and may have worked with his brother, Francesco.
See Luthier and Giovanni Grancino
Giovanni Paolo Maggini
Giovanni Paolo Maggini (c. 1580 - c. 1630), was a luthier born in Botticino (Brescia), Italy.
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Girolamo Amati
Girolamo Amati (1561–1630) was an Italian luthier, active from 1580 to 1630.
See Luthier and Girolamo Amati
Gretsch
Gretsch is an American company that manufactures and markets musical instruments.
Guarneri
The Guarneri, often referred to in the Latinized form Guarnerius, is the family name of a group of distinguished luthiers from Cremona in Italy in the 17th and 18th centuries, whose standing is considered comparable to those of the Amati and Stradivari families.
Gudok
The gudok (гудок), gudochek (гудочек) is an ancient Eastern Slavic string musical instrument, played with a bow.
Guitar
The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with some exceptions) and typically has six or twelve strings.
Harp
The harp is a stringed musical instrument that has individual strings running at an angle to its soundboard; the strings are plucked with the fingers.
See Luthier and Harp
Hurdy-gurdy
The hurdy-gurdy is a string instrument that produces sound by a hand-crank-turned, rosined wheel rubbing against the strings.
Jacob Stainer
Jacob Stainer (–1683) was the earliest and best known Austrian and Germanic luthier.
Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume
Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume (7 October 1798 – 19 March 1875) was a French luthier, businessman, inventor and winner of many awards.
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Jimmy D'Aquisto
James L. D'Aquisto (Brooklyn, November 9, 1935 – California, April 17, 1995) was an American luthier who concentrated on building and repairing archtop guitars.
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Johann Georg Stauffer
Johann Georg Stauffer (also Johann Georg Staufer; January 26, 1778, in Vienna – January 24, 1853) was an Austrian luthier and the most important Viennese luthier of his time.
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John D'Angelico
John D'Angelico (1905 in Little Italy, Manhattan – September 1, 1964 in Manhattan) was a luthier from New York City, noted for his handmade archtop guitars and mandolins.
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Klotz (violin makers)
Klotz is a family of violin makers.
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La Couture-Boussey
La Couture-Boussey is a commune in the Eure department in northern France.
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Lap steel guitar
The lap steel guitar, also known as a Hawaiian guitar, is a type of steel guitar without pedals that is typically played with the instrument in a horizontal position across the performer's lap.
See Luthier and Lap steel guitar
Leo Fender
Clarence Leonidas Fender (August 10, 1909 – March 21, 1991) was an American inventor and founder of the Fender Musical Instruments Corporation.
Leopold Widhalm
Martin Leopold Widhalm (October 2, 1722 – June 10, 1776) was an Austrian luthier.
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Les Paul
Lester William Polsfuss (June 9, 1915 – August 12, 2009), known as Les Paul, was an American jazz, country, and blues guitarist, songwriter, luthier, and inventor.
List of luthiers
This is a short list of some significant Luthiers.
See Luthier and List of luthiers
Lloyd Loar
Lloyd Allayre Loar (1886–1943) was an American musician, instrument designer and sound engineer.
Lute
A lute is any plucked string instrument with a neck and a deep round back enclosing a hollow cavity, usually with a sound hole or opening in the body.
See Luthier and Lute
Martin Hoffmann (luthier)
Martin Hoffmann (1653–1719) was an important German luthier, based in Leipzig.
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Matteo Goffriller
Matteo Goffriller (1659–1742) was a Venetian luthier, particularly noted for the quality of his cellos.
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Matteo Sellas
Matteo Sellas (sometimes also written Mateo Sellas or in original German Matthäus Seelos) was a German luthier born in 1580 in Füssen who worked in Venice from 1620–1650 and is best known for building lutes, archlutes and baroque guitars.
Milan
Milan (Milano) is a city in northern Italy, regional capital of Lombardy, and the second-most-populous city proper in Italy after Rome.
Mirecourt
Mirecourt is a commune in the Vosges department in Grand Est in northeastern France.
Morin khuur
The morin khuur (morin khuur), also known as the horsehead fiddle, is a traditional Mongolian bowed stringed instrument.
Naples
Naples (Napoli; Napule) is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's administrative limits as of 2022.
Nicolò Gagliano
Nicolò Gagliano (active. c. 1730s – 1787 in Naples), although there is some discussion about the exact dates) (also known as Nicolo, Nicola or Nicolaus Gagliano - also sometimes known as Nicolò I, to differentiate him from Nicolò II, his grandson), was an Italian violin-maker, the eldest son of Alessandro Gagliano.
See Luthier and Nicolò Gagliano
Nuremberg
Nuremberg (Nürnberg; in the local East Franconian dialect: Nämberch) is the largest city in Franconia, the second-largest city in the German state of Bavaria, and its 544,414 (2023) inhabitants make it the 14th-largest city in Germany.
Nyckelharpa
Stemming from Sweden, the nyckelharpa (plural nyckelharpor), meaning "keyed fiddle" or "key harp"(), is a bowed chordophone, similar in appearance to a fiddle or violin but larger (in its earlier forms essentially a modified vielle), which employs key-actuated tangents along the neck to change the pitch during play, much like a hurdy-gurdy.
Orville Gibson
Orville H. Gibson (May 1856 – August 19, 1918) was an American luthier who founded the Gibson Guitar Company in Kalamazoo, Michigan in 1902, makers of guitars, mandolins and other instruments.
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Paolo Antonio Testore
Paolo Antonio Testore (born 1700 - died 1767) was a Milanese luthier.
See Luthier and Paolo Antonio Testore
Paracho de Verduzco
Paracho de Verduzco (often called Paracho) is a small city located in Michoacán, Mexico.
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Paul Bigsby
Paul Adelburt Bigsby (1899–1968) was an American inventor, designer, and pioneer of the solid body electric guitar.
Plucked string instrument
Plucked string instruments are a subcategory of string instruments that are played by plucking the strings.
See Luthier and Plucked string instrument
Rebab
The rebab (ربابة, rabāba, variously spelled rebap, rubob, rebeb, rababa, rabeba, robab, rubab, rebob, etc) is the name of several related string instruments that independently spread via Islamic trading routes over much of North Africa, Middle East, Central Asia, Southeast Asia, and parts of Europe.
Rebec
The rebec (sometimes rebecha, rebeckha, and other spellings, pronounced or) is a bowed stringed instrument of the Medieval era and the early Renaissance.
Rome
Rome (Italian and Roma) is the capital city of Italy.
See Luthier and Rome
Sanctus Seraphin
Sanctus Seraphin (Udine 1699 – Venice 1776), also known as Santo Serafin, was a successful luthier (violin maker), working in Venice.
See Luthier and Sanctus Seraphin
Sarangi
The sārangī is a bowed, short-necked three-stringed instrument played in traditional music from South Asia – Punjabi folk music, Rajasthani folk music, Sindhi folk music, Haryanvi folk music, Braj folk music, and Boro folk music (there known as the serja) – in Pakistan, South India and Bangladesh.
Simone Fernando Sacconi
Simone Fernando Sacconi (May 30, 1895 in Rome – June 26, 1973 in Point Lookout) was an expert Italian violin maker and restorer who studied fellow luthier Antonio Stradivari extensively during his lifetime.
See Luthier and Simone Fernando Sacconi
String instrument
In musical instrument classification, string instruments or chordophones, are musical instruments that produce sound from vibrating strings when a performer plays or sounds the strings in some manner.
See Luthier and String instrument
Theorbo
The theorbo is a plucked string instrument of the lute family, with an extended neck that houses the second pegbox.
Tieffenbrucker
Tieffenbrucker is a large multigenerational family of luthiers, originally from Bavaria, active in Venice and Padua, Italy from the beginning of the 16th century till around 1630.
See Luthier and Tieffenbrucker
Tonewood
Tonewood refers to specific wood varieties used for woodwind or acoustic stringed instruments.
Valentino Siani
Valentino Siani (c.1595–1672) was an Italian violinmaker who worked in Brescia and Florence.
See Luthier and Valentino Siani
Venice
Venice (Venezia; Venesia, formerly Venexia) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto region.
Vibrato systems for guitar
A vibrato system on a guitar is a mechanical device used to temporarily change the pitch of the strings.
See Luthier and Vibrato systems for guitar
Vihuela
The vihuela is a 15th-century fretted plucked Spanish string instrument, shaped like a guitar (figure-of-eight form offering strength and portability) but tuned like a lute.
Vincenzo Rugeri
Vincenzo Rugeri (30 September 1663 – 4 May 1719) (also known as Ruger, Rugier, Rugieri, Ruggeri, Ruggieri, Ruggerius), was an Italian luthier of string instruments such as violins, cellos, and, violas in Cremona, Italy.
See Luthier and Vincenzo Rugeri
Viol
The viol, viola da gamba, or informally gamba, is any one of a family of bowed, fretted, and stringed instruments with hollow wooden bodies and pegboxes where the tension on the strings can be increased or decreased to adjust the pitch of each of the strings.
See Luthier and Viol
Viola
The viola is a string instrument that is usually bowed.
Viola d'amore
The viola d'amore (Italian for "viol of love") is a 7- or 6-stringed musical instrument with sympathetic strings used chiefly in the baroque period.
Viola da braccio
Viola da braccio (from Italian "arm viola", plural viole da braccio) is a term variously applied during the baroque period to instruments of the violin family, in distinction to the viola da gamba ("leg viola") and the viol family to which the latter belongs.
See Luthier and Viola da braccio
Violin
The violin, colloquially known as a fiddle, is a wooden chordophone, and is the smallest, and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in regular use in the violin family. Luthier and violin are violins.
Violin family
The violin family of musical instruments was developed in Italy in the 16th century.
Violin making and maintenance
Making an instrument of the violin family, also called lutherie, may be done in different ways, many of which have changed very little in nearly 500 years since the first violins were made. Luthier and violin making and maintenance are lutherie and violins.
See Luthier and Violin making and maintenance
See also
Lutherie
- Bow maker
- Cheb Violin Making School
- Classical guitar making
- Ebonol (material)
- Finger plane
- Horace William Petherick
- Luthier
- Luthiers
- Player preferences among new and old violins
- Purfling
- Sunburst (finish)
- Traditional violin craftsmanship in Cremona
- Violin construction and mechanics
- Violin making and maintenance
Violins
- American fiddle
- Antonietta (novel)
- Baroque violin
- Bass violin
- Bosnian maple
- Cape Breton fiddling
- Chinrest
- Classical violin in Cuba
- Electric violin
- Fiddle
- Fiddler's neck
- Fidola
- Five-string violin
- Guitar fiddle
- Henry Hottinger Collection
- History of the violin
- Hyperbow
- Jazz violin
- Kingri (string instrument)
- Kukkuma
- Låtfiol
- Luthier
- Musée de la Lutherie et de l'Archèterie françaises
- Mute violin
- Piano trio
- Player preferences among new and old violins
- Shoulder rest
- Simon v. Commissioner
- Stroh violin
- Swedish Double-decker
- Traditional violin craftsmanship in Cremona
- Vernice bianca
- Violectra
- Violetta (instrument)
- Violin
- Violin acoustics
- Violin authentication
- Violin concerto
- Violin construction and mechanics
- Violin in music
- Violin making and maintenance
- Violin technique
- Violinists
- Virtuoso Violin
- Vitar violins
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luthier
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