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168 makers

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Music Man

    American guitar and bass guitar manufacturer

    Models: 9 · Categories: 2

    Music Man is an American maker of electric guitars and basses founded in 1974, now part of Ernie Ball, known for instruments such as the StingRay bass.

  • G&L

    American guitar and bass maker

    Models: 9 · Categories: 1

    G&L is an American maker of electric guitars and basses founded in 1979 by Leo Fender and George Fullerton, building on Fender-style designs with Leo Fender's later innovations.

  • D'Angelico Guitars

    United States guitar brand

    Models: 9 · Sources: 3

    D'Angelico is an American guitar brand rooted in the archtop instruments built by luthier John D'Angelico in New York from the 1930s, today offering archtop, hollow-body, and semi-hollow electric guitars.

  • E-mu Systems

    American electronic instrument maker

    Models: 9 · Categories: 4

    E-mu Systems is an American maker of electronic musical instruments founded in 1971 in Santa Cruz, California. The company pioneered affordable samplers with the Emulator series and later became widely known for its sample-based sound modules, including the Proteus family and the Vintage Keys. E-mu was acquired by Creative Technology in 1993 and ceased hardware production in the early 2000s.

  • Guild

    American guitar maker

    Models: 8 · Sources: 2

    Guild is an American guitar maker founded in 1952, known for steel-string acoustic flat-tops, twelve-strings, and hollow-body electric guitars.

  • CodaBow

    American carbon fiber bow maker

    Models: 8 · Categories: 1

    CodaBow is an American manufacturer of carbon fiber bows for violin, viola, cello, and double bass, based in Winona, Minnesota. A pioneer of the composite bow, the company is widely regarded as the leading maker of advanced carbon fiber bows, offering a tiered range from student bows to master-level performance models built with proprietary materials such as its Xebony composite frog material.

  • Dean Guitars

    American manufacturer of stringed instruments and musical products

    Models: 8 · Categories: 1

    Dean Guitars is an American maker of stringed instruments founded in 1976, known for electric guitars and basses including the V and ML shapes associated with hard rock and metal.

  • Charvel

    United States electric guitar brand

    Models: 8 · Categories: 1

    Charvel is an American electric guitar brand founded in California in the 1970s, known for high-performance 'superstrat' guitars popular in rock and metal.

  • Make Noise

    Eurorack synthesizer maker

    Models: 7 · Categories: 1

    A synthesizer company associated with Eurorack modules and modular systems.

  • Kala Brand Music

    California ukulele and U-Bass brand

    Models: 7 · Sources: 3

    Kala Brand Music is a Petaluma, California company known for ukuleles, U-Bass instruments, guitars, percussion, and learning-oriented ukulele lines.

  • Fox Products

    American bassoon and oboe maker

    Models: 7 · Sources: 2

    Fox Products is an American double-reed maker producing bassoons, contrabassoons, oboes, English horns, and related double-reed instruments.

  • Friedman Guitars

    Boutique guitar and amplifier builder

    Models: 7 · Categories: 2

    Friedman is a United States boutique builder founded by Dave Friedman (Rack Systems). The company is best known for Friedman Amplification's hand-wired EL34 guitar amplifiers such as the BE-100 (Brown Eye) and Small Box, and also produces boutique electric guitars.

  • Breedlove Guitars

    United States acoustic guitar maker

    Models: 7 · Sources: 3

    Breedlove is an American acoustic guitar maker founded in Oregon in 1990, known for distinctive body and bridge shapes and a focus on sustainable tonewoods.

  • Burkart Flutes & Piccolos

    American handmade flute and piccolo maker

    Models: 7 · Categories: 1

    Burkart Flutes & Piccolos, based in Shirley, Massachusetts, makes handmade professional flutes and piccolos featuring the Burkart micro-Link pinless mechanism, and also produces the Resona by Burkart intermediate line.

  • Deering Banjo Company

    California banjo maker

    Models: 7 · Categories: 1

    Deering Banjo Company is a family-founded California banjo maker known for Deering, Vega, Goodtime, Tenbrooks, and custom banjo lines.

  • Verne Q. Powell Flutes

    Massachusetts flute maker

    Models: 6 · Sources: 3

    Verne Q. Powell Flutes is a Massachusetts flute maker producing handmade professional flutes, piccolos, headjoints, and related flute-family instruments.

  • Wm. S. Haynes Co.

    Boston flute maker

    Models: 6 · Sources: 2

    Wm. S. Haynes Co. is a Boston flute maker known for handmade professional flutes, piccolos, headjoints, and historical flute-making work dating to the late nineteenth century.

  • Fano Guitars

    United States boutique electric guitar maker

    Models: 6 · Categories: 1

    Fano Guitars is a United States boutique, custom, or specialist electric guitar maker.

  • Gold Tone Music Group

    Florida fretted-instrument maker and brand

    Models: 6 · Sources: 2

    Gold Tone Music Group is a Titusville, Florida maker and brand group with banjos, mandolins, guitars, basses, ukuleles, accessories, and related folk instruments.

  • Bourgeois Guitars

    United States boutique acoustic guitar maker

    Models: 6 · Sources: 2

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

  • DW Drums

    California drum maker

    Models: 6 · Sources: 4

    DW Drums is a California drum maker producing professional drum kits, snares, pedals, hardware, and custom drums.

  • B.C. Rich

    Company

    Models: 6 · Categories: 1

    B.C. Rich is an American guitar maker founded in 1969, known for its angular, pointed electric guitar and bass shapes such as the Mockingbird and Warlock that became staples of heavy metal.

  • Story & Clark

    American musical instrument maker

    Models: 5 · Sources: 1

    Story & Clark is an American maker of pianos, a long-established firm known for its upright and player pianos.

  • Reverend

    American guitar maker

    Models: 5 · Categories: 1

    Reverend is an American guitar maker founded in 1997, known for retro-styled electric guitars and basses with bass-contour controls and pin-lock tuners.

  • Parker Guitars

    American guitar maker

    Models: 5 · Categories: 1

    Parker Guitars is an American maker founded in 1993 by luthier Ken Parker, known for the lightweight Fly guitar built with a carbon-glass exoskeleton over a wood core.