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13 makers

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Silvertone

    American catalog instrument brand

    Models: 4 · Categories: 1

    Silvertone is an American brand of guitars, amplifiers, and other instruments sold by Sears beginning in 1916, with instruments built by makers such as Danelectro, Harmony, and Kay.

  • Kentucky Mandolins

    Saga Musical Instruments mandolin brand

    Models: 3 · Categories: 1

    Kentucky Mandolins is a Saga Musical Instruments mandolin brand with A-style and F-style mandolin-family instruments.

  • Leblanc Clarinets

    Clarinet brand

    Models: 3 · Categories: 1

    Leblanc Clarinets is a clarinet brand associated with professional and student clarinet-family instruments under the Conn-Selmer instrument group.

  • Di Zhao Flutes

    American flute brand handcrafted in China

    Models: 3 · Sources: 2

    Di Zhao Flutes, founded in 2006 and based in Westford, Massachusetts, offers student through professional flutes handcrafted in Tianjin, China by makers trained by Di Zhao, with widely praised value at each level.

  • Alvarez Guitars

    United States acoustic guitar brand

    Models: 3 · Sources: 3

    Alvarez is an American-owned acoustic guitar brand known for steel-string, classical, and acoustic-electric guitars offered across a wide range of price points.

  • Recording King

    American-designed bluegrass and old-time banjos

    Categories: 2 · Models: 2

    Recording King is an American instrument brand reviving a historic Montgomery Ward name, known for affordable bluegrass and old-time banjos built around Mastertone-style tone rings and flanges, alongside guitars and resonator instruments.

  • Lee Oskar Harmonicas

    Harmonica brand associated with Lee Oskar and Tombo

    Models: 2 · Sources: 2

    Lee Oskar Harmonicas is a harmonica brand known for modular diatonic harmonicas in standard and altered tunings.

  • Vega

    Historic American banjo brand, built by Deering

    Categories: 1 · Models: 1

    Vega is a historic American banjo brand, founded in Boston, whose old-time and classic models are today designed and built by the Deering Banjo Company in California.