Musical Instrument Maker

This page lists 711 biographies of musical instrument makers, covering lives from 1335 to 2000. Featuring Charles Wheatstone, Adolphe Sax and Jim Marshall. Each profile gives life dates, nationality, education, positions held and a sourced, attributed account of the person's life.

People in this occupation

Giovanni Battista Ceruti

1756 – 1817

Enrico Ceruti

1806 – 1883

François-Nicolas Voirin

1833 – 1885

Bill Asher

b. 1964

George Small

1782 – 1861

David Hite

1923 – 2004

Josef Lidl

Johann Goldfuß

1908 – 1970

Adolph Rickenbacker

1887 – 1976

Antonio Stradivari

1644 – 1737

Václav Červený

1819 – 1896

Sam Murray

b. 1950

Mathijs Heyligers

b. 1957

Lorenzo Musante

1730 – 1780

Margaret F. Hood

1937 – 2008

Henry Liston

1771 – 1836

Hannu Koistinen

b. 1966

Walter Henry Mayson

1835 – 1904

Charles François Gand

1789 – 1845

Sámuel Nemessányi

1837 – 1881

Richard Tobin

1766 – 1847

José Yacopi

1916 – 2006

Theo Wanne

b. 1967

Salvador Ibáñez

1854 – 1917

Augustin Lavallée

1816 – 1903

Anton Haeckl

1800 – 1900

Peter Harlan

1898 – 1966

Christian Gottlob Hubert

1714 – 1793

Thomas Meuwissen

b. 1966

Joseph Arthur Vigneron

1851 – 1905

Gregg Alf

b. 1957

Andy Manson

Eugène Sartory

1871 – 1946

Bartolomeo Cristofori

1655 – 1731

Christian Zell

1683 – 1763

Benedikt Eppelsheim

1967 – 2023

Adriana Breukink

1957 – 2022

Robert Giardinelli

1914 – 1996

Philip Belt

1927 – 2015

Victor Bedikian

Heinrich Th Heberlein Jr.

1843 – 1910

Dana Bourgeois

b. 1953

Heinrich Knopf

1839 – 1875

Shot Jackson

1920 – 1991

George Dixon

1870 – 1950

Armand Zildjian

1921 – 2002

Benjamin Banks

1750 – 1795

Edward James Bossward

1825 – 1883

Roger Yates

1905 – 1975

Mike Lipe

1948 – 2018

Knut Gunnarsson Helland

1880 – 1920

Benoît Rolland

b. 1954

E.A. Couturier

1869 – 1950

Alexander Buckingham

Tullio Bassi

b. 1937

Lloyd Loar

1886 – 1943

Hieronymus Albrecht Hass

1689 – 1752

Nobuhiro Sonoda

b. 1949

August Barbe

1853 – 1902

Martin Skowroneck

1926 – 2014

Alfred Charles Langonet

1917 – 1973

Ludwig Hupfeld

1864 – 1949

Annibale Fagnola

1866 – 1939

Eustace Ingram

1839 – 1924

Andrea Tacchi

b. 1956

François Périnet

1805 – 1861

Benjamin Flight

1767 – 1847

Daniel Rauch

b. 1948

Jon Eriksson Helland

1790 – 1862

Claude-François Clicquot

1762 – 1801

Ioes Karest

1450 – 1560

Henry Arthur Ward

1838 – 1903

Samuel Zygmuntowicz

b. 1956

Dale Hyatt

1925 – 2013

Gary Southwell

b. 1962

George Catlin

1778 – 1852

Willem Kroesbergen

b. 1943

Max Möller

1915 – 1985

George Trayser

1808 – 1881

Joseph Contreras

1710 – 1782

Russell Cook

Carlo Bisiach

1892 – 1968

Tõnu Sepp

b. 1946

Johannes Zumpe

1726 – 1790

Claude Thomassin

1865 – 1942

Tadeo Gomez

1902 – 1986

John Harris

Ernst David

1864 – 1918

Johann Koehnken

1819 – 1897

Thomas Perry

1744 – 1818

Johann Andreas Stumpff

1769 – 1846

Jim Triggs

John Avery

Zanetto Micheli

1489 – 1560

Ernst Heinrich Roth

1877 – 1948

Marcel Fétique

1899 – 1977

Charles Peccatte

1850 – 1918

Frank Kovanda

1904 – 1993

Robert Goble

1903 – 1991

Anselmo Bellosio

1743 – 1793