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490 makers

  • Yamaha

    Japan musical instrument manufacturer

    Models: 120 · Categories: 11

    Yamaha is a Japanese musical instrument manufacturer founded in 1887 and one of the largest in the world, producing pianos, guitars, wind and brass instruments, drums, and a wide range of electronic instruments.

  • Roland

    Japanese electronic and amplification instrument maker

    Models: 70 · Categories: 10

    Roland is a Japanese maker of electronic musical instruments, including synthesizers, drum machines such as the TR-808, and the JC-120 Jazz Chorus, a benchmark solid-state guitar amplifier known for its built-in stereo chorus and produced since 1975.

  • Fender

    United States electric guitar maker

    Models: 56 · Sources: 2

    Fender is an American maker of electric guitars, basses, and amplifiers, founded in California in 1946. Its Telecaster, Stratocaster, and Precision Bass are among the most influential solid-body electric instruments ever built.

  • Camac Harps

    French harp maker

    Models: 46 · Categories: 1

    Camac Harps is a French harp maker producing pedal, lever, electric, and specialty harps for professional and student players.

  • Gibson

    United States guitar manufacturer

    Models: 43 · Categories: 3

    Gibson is an American guitar manufacturer founded in 1902 and based in Nashville, Tennessee. It is known for archtop, hollow-body, and solid-body electric guitars such as the Les Paul, SG, and ES-335, as well as acoustic flat-tops.

  • Stentor Music

    British orchestral string instrument brand

    Models: 36 · Categories: 3

    Stentor Music is a British orchestral string instrument brand associated with student and advancing violins, violas, cellos, double basses, bows, and cases.

  • Eastman Strings

    Orchestral string instrument brand

    Models: 35 · Sources: 5

    Eastman Strings is an orchestral string instrument brand with violin, viola, cello, bass, bow, case, and string-family instrument lines.

  • Moog Music

    American company

    Models: 33 · Categories: 2

    Moog Music is an American maker of synthesizers founded by Robert Moog in 1953, a pioneer of the commercial analog synthesizer known for the Minimoog and a range of modular and performance synths.

  • Córdoba Guitars

    Nylon-string and acoustic guitar brand

    Models: 33

    Córdoba is a guitar brand known for classical, flamenco, fusion, and other nylon-string guitars.

  • Korg

    Musical instrument manufacturing company

    Models: 29 · Categories: 6

    Korg is a Japanese maker of electronic musical instruments founded in 1963, producing synthesizers, keyboards, drum machines, tuners, and effects.

  • ESP

    Japanese guitar maker

    Models: 28 · Categories: 3

    ESP is a Japanese guitar maker founded in Tokyo in 1975, known for custom and production electric guitars and basses, especially the pointed designs popular with metal and hard-rock players.

  • Vox

    British amplifier and keyboard maker

    Models: 25 · Categories: 2

    Vox is a British musical-equipment brand established in the late 1950s, best known for the AC30 guitar amplifier and the Continental combo organ widely used in 1960s pop and rock. The brand is now part of Korg.

  • Ibanez

    Japan guitar brand

    Models: 22 · Categories: 3

    Ibanez is a Japanese guitar brand established in 1929 and produced by Hoshino Gakki. It is widely known for electric guitars and basses, particularly fast-necked models favored in rock and metal.

  • Taylor Guitars

    United States acoustic guitar maker

    Models: 21 · Sources: 2

    Taylor Guitars is an American acoustic guitar maker founded in El Cajon, California, in 1974. It is one of the largest steel-string acoustic builders and is known for consistent build quality and a bright, modern tone.

  • Lyon & Healy

    Chicago harp maker

    Models: 21 · Categories: 1

    Lyon & Healy is a Chicago harp maker associated with concert grand pedal harps, semi-grand harps, lever harps, and professional harp production.

  • Aoyama Harps

    Japanese pedal and lever harp maker

    Models: 21 · Categories: 1

    Aoyama Harps is a Japanese harp maker with pedal, semi-concert, student, and lever harp lines represented internationally.

  • Salvi Harps

    Italian harp maker

    Models: 19 · Categories: 1

    Salvi Harps is an Italian harp maker associated with concert grand, semi-grand, lever, electroacoustic, and student harps.

  • Manufacturas Alhambra S.L.

    Spanish classical and flamenco guitar maker

    Models: 18 · Sources: 1

    Alhambra is a Spanish maker of classical and flamenco guitars based in Muro de Alcoy, near Alicante.

  • Squier

    Electric guitar and basse brand

    Models: 15 · Categories: 1

    Squier is Fender's line of more affordable electric guitars and basses, reviving the historic Squier string-company name to offer budget-friendly versions of Fender designs such as the Stratocaster and Telecaster.

  • Steinway & Sons

    German-American company

    Models: 14 · Sources: 2

    Steinway & Sons is a maker of grand and upright pianos founded in New York in 1853 by Heinrich Steinweg, with a second factory in Hamburg, and is widely regarded for its concert grand pianos.

  • Hohner

    German harmonica and accordion maker

    Models: 15 · Sources: 4

    Hohner is a German musical-instrument maker founded in Trossingen in 1857, especially associated with harmonicas and accordions.

  • Buffet Crampon

    French clarinet and woodwind maker

    Models: 14 · Categories: 2

    Buffet Crampon is a French woodwind maker especially associated with professional clarinets, saxophones, oboes, and orchestral wind instruments.

  • Dusty Strings

    Seattle harp and hammered dulcimer maker

    Models: 15 · Categories: 1

    Dusty Strings is a Seattle instrument maker producing lever harps, harp accessories, and hammered dulcimers.

  • NS Design

    Electric bowed-string instrument maker

    Models: 13 · Categories: 4

    NS Design is the electric bowed-string instrument brand founded by American luthier Ned Steinberger. It makes electric violins, violas, cellos, and double basses, including the WAV, NXTa, and CR series. Its instruments share the NS Polar directional piezo pickup, a patented self-clamping tuning system, and an adjustable-height bridge.

  • Ludwig Drums

    American drum and percussion brand

    Models: 13 · Categories: 3

    Ludwig Drums is an American drum and percussion brand known for drum kits, snare drums, marching percussion, concert percussion, and hardware.

  • Epiphone

    United States guitar brand

    Models: 13 · Categories: 2

    Epiphone is an American guitar brand that traces its roots to 1873 and has been owned by Gibson since 1957. It produces electric and acoustic guitars, including more affordable versions of Gibson designs alongside its own models such as the Casino.

  • Oberheim

    American synthesizer maker

    Models: 12 · Categories: 1

    Oberheim is an American synthesizer maker founded by Tom Oberheim in 1969, known for the SEM, the OB-X family of polyphonic synthesizers, and the DMX drum machine.

  • Selmer Paris

    French woodwind and brass maker

    Models: 12 · Categories: 1

    Selmer Paris is a French woodwind and brass maker associated with professional saxophones, clarinets, mouthpieces, and orchestral wind instruments.

  • Gretsch

    United States guitar brand

    Models: 12 · Categories: 3

    Gretsch is an American instrument maker founded in Brooklyn in 1883, known both for its hollow-body electric guitars and for its drums. Its guitars are closely associated with rockabilly, country, and rock players.

  • C. F. Martin & Co.

    American acoustic instrument maker

    Models: 12 · Categories: 2

    A maker of acoustic guitars and related instruments, including the D-28 Standard Series dreadnought.

  • Electro-Harmonix

    American effects pedal maker

    Models: 12 · Categories: 1

    Electro-Harmonix (EHX) is an American maker of effects pedals for electric guitar and bass, founded by Mike Matthews in 1968 in New York City. An early pioneer of affordable stompbox design, the company is best known for the Big Muff Pi fuzz, along with influential models such as the Small Stone phaser, Memory Man delay, and Electric Mistress flanger. After closing in 1984, the brand was revived in the 1990s and continues to design and build a broad pedal range in New York.

  • Ovation Guitar Company

    Manufacturer of guitars

    Models: 11 · Sources: 2

    Ovation is an American guitar maker founded in 1966, known for acoustic-electric guitars built with rounded synthetic 'roundback' bowls in place of traditional wooden backs.

  • Schecter

    American guitar brand

    Models: 11 · Categories: 1

    Schecter is an American guitar brand founded in 1976, originally a parts maker and now known for electric guitars and basses aimed at rock and metal players.

  • Sequential

    American synthesizer maker

    Models: 11 · Categories: 1

    Sequential is an American synthesizer maker founded by Dave Smith in 1974, known for the Prophet-5, one of the first programmable polyphonic synthesizers.

  • Jackson

    American electric guitar brand

    Models: 11 · Sources: 2

    Jackson is an American electric guitar and bass brand founded in 1980, known for pointed-body 'superstrat' designs and signature instruments built for hard rock and heavy metal.

  • Boss

    Guitar and bass effects pedal brand

    Models: 11 · Categories: 1

    Boss is a brand of guitar and bass effects pedals, multi-effects processors, tuners, and loopers, operated as a division of Japan's Roland Corporation. Boss is best known for its rugged, color-coded compact pedal format, which launched in 1977 and has grown to more than 140 compact pedal models. Long-running staples include the DS-1 Distortion, SD-1 Super Overdrive, and BD-2 Blues Driver, alongside digital delay, reverb, chorus, and the GT-series multi-effects line.

  • ARP Instruments, Inc.

    Manufacturer of electronic musical instruments

    Models: 11 · Categories: 3

    ARP Instruments was an American maker of electronic musical instruments founded in 1969, a leading synthesizer manufacturer of the 1970s known for the Odyssey, the 2600, and its string ensemble.

  • Sabian

    Canadian cymbal maker

    Models: 10 · Sources: 2

    Sabian is a Canadian cymbal maker producing crash, ride, hi-hat, effects, hand, orchestral, and marching cymbals.

  • PRS Guitars

    United States guitar manufacturer

    Models: 10 · Categories: 2

    PRS Guitars, founded by Paul Reed Smith in Maryland in 1985, is an American guitar manufacturer known for electric guitars that blend Fender and Gibson influences with figured-maple tops and proprietary hardware.

  • Rickenbacker

    United States electric guitar maker

    Models: 10 · Sources: 2

    Rickenbacker is an American maker of electric guitars and basses founded in California in 1931. A pioneer of the electric guitar, it is known for its bright, jangly tone and instruments such as the 360 guitar and 4001 bass.

  • Pearl Drums

    Japanese drum and percussion maker

    Models: 10 · Sources: 3

    Pearl Drums is a Japanese drum and percussion maker producing acoustic and electronic drum kits, marching percussion, concert percussion, hardware, and accessories.

  • Marshall

    British guitar amplifier maker

    Models: 10 · Sources: 2

    Marshall Amplification is a British maker of guitar amplifiers, speaker cabinets, and effects, founded in London in 1962 by Jim Marshall. Its loud valve amps and the stacked head-and-cabinet 'Marshall stack' became defining sounds and images of rock music, used by players from Jimi Hendrix to Slash.

  • Getzen Company

    Wisconsin brass instrument maker

    Models: 10 · Categories: 2

    Getzen Company is a Wisconsin brass instrument maker known for trumpets, cornets, flugelhorns, trombones, and related brass instruments.

  • Ensoniq

    American technology company

    Models: 10 · Categories: 1

    Ensoniq was an American electronics company founded in 1982, known for affordable samplers and synthesizers such as the Mirage and the ASR and SQ keyboard workstations.

  • Hammond

    American manufacturer of electric clocks and electromechanical organs

    Models: 10 · Categories: 2

    Hammond is an American maker founded in 1928, known for the electromechanical tonewheel organ, especially the B-3, and its association with the Leslie rotating speaker.

  • Collings Guitars

    United States boutique acoustic guitar maker

    Models: 10 · Sources: 4

    Collings Guitars is a United States boutique, custom, or luthier-led acoustic guitar maker.

  • Arturia

    French electronic instrument maker

    Models: 10 · Categories: 2

    Arturia is a French maker of electronic instruments and software founded in 1999, known for analog synthesizers, software recreations of classic synths, and MIDI controllers.

  • Adams Musical Instruments

    Dutch brass and percussion maker

    Models: 10 · Categories: 3

    Adams Musical Instruments is a Dutch maker of brass, percussion, and related instruments, including tubas and other low-brass instruments.

  • Venus Harps

    American harp maker

    Models: 9 · Categories: 1

    Venus Harps is an American harp maker producing concert grand, semi-grand, lever, and custom harps.

  • Zildjian

    Cymbal maker

    Models: 9 · Categories: 1

    Zildjian is a cymbal maker associated with crash, ride, hi-hat, effects, marching, concert, and specialty cymbals.