Makers

Every maker, largest catalogue first.

2 makers

  • J.C. Deagan

    The historical American mallet percussion maker

    Models: 3 · Categories: 2

    J.C. Deagan built marimbas, vibraphones, orchestra bells, chimes, and tower bells in Chicago from the 1880s, and effectively invented the vibraphone as an instrument with a motor-driven tremolo. Deagan bars still turn up in orchestras and are still preferred by some players over anything made since.

  • Studio 49

    The original Orff instrument maker

    Categories: 2 · Models: 2

    Studio 49 was founded in Munich in 1949 to build the instruments Carl Orff's Schulwerk required — xylophones, metallophones, and glockenspiels with removable bars — and its instruments defined how percussion is taught to children across much of the world.