Makers

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.

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.

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.

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.

Kawai Musical Instruments

Musical instrument manufacturer in Hamamatsu City, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan

Models: 8 · Categories: 1

Kawai is a Japanese maker of pianos and other musical instruments founded in Hamamatsu in 1927, known for its grand, upright, and digital pianos.

Alesis

Manufacturer of music and audio equipment

Models: 7 · Categories: 1

Alesis is an American maker of music and audio equipment founded in 1980, known for affordable digital reverbs, drum machines, mixers, and electronic instruments.

EarthQuaker Devices

Audio effects manufacturer

Models: 6 · Sources: 2

EarthQuaker Devices is an American maker of guitar effects pedals based in Akron, Ohio, hand-building a wide range of overdrive, modulation, and delay effects.

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 · Representative model: 1

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

Premier Percussion

Trademark

Models: 4 · Categories: 2

Premier is a British maker of drums and percussion founded in 1922, one of the best-known British drum manufacturers.

Welson

Italian company, musical instrument maker

Models: 3 · Representative model: 1

Welson was an Italian maker of musical instruments based in Castelfidardo, producing accordions and electronic organs.

Watkins Electric Music

Manufacturer of musical instruments

Models: 3 · Representative model: 1

Watkins Electric Music (WEM) is a British maker of musical instruments and amplification founded by Charlie Watkins, known for the Copicat tape echo and its guitar and PA amplifiers.

Steinberger

Trademark

Models: 3 · Categories: 2

Steinberger is an American instrument brand founded in 1979 by Ned Steinberger, known for headless, minimalist electric guitars and basses built with composite materials.

Kay Musical Instrument Company

American musical instrument manufacturer established in 1931

Models: 3 · Representative model: 1

Kay was an American musical instrument manufacturer based in Chicago, known for affordable guitars, basses, and other stringed instruments often sold through catalogs and store brands.

Ludwig-Musser

United States musical instrument manufacturer, focused on percussion

Models: 3 · Categories: 1

Ludwig (Ludwig-Musser) is an American maker of percussion instruments founded in 1909, known for its drum kits, famously played by Ringo Starr, and for Musser mallet percussion.

Guo Musical Instrument Company

Accessory maker

Models: 3 · Representative model: 1

Guo Musical Instrument Company is a Taiwanese maker founded in 1988, known for flutes built from composite materials.

Hora (company)

Romanian musical instrument maker

Models: 3 · Representative model: 1

Hora is a Romanian maker of musical instruments founded in 1951, known for stringed folk instruments, guitars, and accordions.

Besson

Trademark

Models: 3 · Sources: 2

Besson is a brass instrument maker founded in Paris in 1837, known for cornets and trumpets as well as brass-band instruments such as euphoniums and tubas.

Beltona Resonator Instruments

British musical instrument maker

Models: 3 · Representative model: 1

Beltona is a maker of metal-bodied resonator instruments, including resonator guitars, ukuleles, and mandolins.

Carlsbro

UK-based supllier of speaker systems

Models: 3 · Representative model: 1

Carlsbro is a British maker of amplification and audio equipment founded around 1960, known for guitar amplifiers, PA systems, and other live-sound gear.

Cole Clark

Australian musical instrument maker

Models: 3 · Sources: 2

Cole Clark is an Australian guitar maker known for acoustic and acoustic-electric guitars built largely from Australian tonewoods and fitted with its own pickup systems.

Bontempi

Italian music instruments manufacturer

Models: 3 · Representative model: 1

Bontempi is an Italian maker of musical and toy instruments founded in 1937, known for inexpensive keyboards, organs, and accordions.

Staccato

British maker of fibreglass drums and magnesium guitars

Models: 2 · Representative model: 1

Staccato is a British musical instrument company founded in 1977 by Pat Townshend in Norwich, England, known for its distinctive fibreglass horn-shelled drums and, from the 1980s, magnesium-alloy electric guitars.

Melodija glasbila

Manufacturer

Models: 2 · Representative model: 1

Melodija glasbila is a maker of musical instruments founded in 1946.

Ural (musical instrument factory)

Musical instrumental factory in Sverdlovsk, which existed in 1963―2007 and produced musical instruments and furniture

Categories: 1 · Models: 1

The Ural musical instrument factory was a Soviet and Russian instrument factory in Sverdlovsk that operated from 1963 to 2007, producing guitars and other musical instruments.

Music Logic Systems, Inc.

American company

Categories: 1 · Models: 1

Music Logic Systems, Inc. was an American maker of electronic music products founded in 1986.

Fender Custom Shop

Division of Fender Musical Instruments Corporation

Categories: 1 · Models: 1

The Fender Custom Shop is the division of Fender that builds high-end, limited, and made-to-order electric guitars and basses, including artist signature models and faithful recreations of vintage instruments.

Generalmusic

Italian manufacturer of musical instruments

Categories: 1 · Models: 1

Generalmusic (GEM) is an Italian maker of musical instruments, producing digital pianos, keyboards, and organs.

Behringer

Professional audio equipment manufacturer

Categories: 1 · Models: 1

Behringer is a German-founded maker of audio and music equipment established in 1989, known for affordable mixers and signal processors and, more recently, synthesizers and recreations of classic instruments.

Digital Keyboards, Inc.

American company

Categories: 1 · Models: 1

Digital Keyboards, Inc. was an American company founded in 1980, known for the Synergy digital synthesizer.

Tedeschi & Raffael

Italian musical instrument manufacturer

Sources: 1

Tedeschi & Raffael is an Italian maker of musical instruments.

Musik-Klein

German musical instruments maker

Sources: 1

Musik-Klein is a German maker of musical instruments founded in 1929.

Jérôme Thibouville-Lamy

Musical instrument maker in France

Sources: 1

Jerome Thibouville-Lamy was a French maker of musical instruments, a large Mirecourt and Paris firm that produced woodwinds, brass, and stringed instruments.