Luthiers from around the world

The modern French name for luthier goes back to lute making. In the German-speaking world, the makers of stringed instruments were called violin makers, as violin was the generic term for various stringed instruments. However, violin makers also occasionally made plucked instruments such as lutes, mandolins, harps, guitars and hurdy-gurdies. Clear demarcations between the instrument makers were created later and regionally by professional associations. The craft of luthiers is usually divided into two main categories: Makers of stringed instruments that are plucked or bowed, and makers of stringed instruments that are bowed. Since stringed instruments require a bow, there is a sub-type in the second category known as a bow maker or archetier. Two important luthiers of the early 19th century who are associated with the development of the modern classical guitar are Louis Panormo and Georg Staufer. Antonio Torres Jurado is credited with developing the shape of the classical guitar that is still in use today. Christian Frederick Martin from Germany developed a form that evolved into the modern steel-stringed acoustic guitar.

Adrian Heinzelmann

Adrian Heinzelmann

Adrian Heinzelmann is one of the most talented German guitar makers of his generation. His guitars are of great finesse and an aesthetic that combines the Spanish tradition and modernity...

Adrian Heinzelmann

Adrian Heinzelmann is one of the most talented German guitar makers of his generation. His guitars are of great finesse and an aesthetic that combines the Spanish tradition and modernity...

Friederike Linscheid

Friederike Linscheid

My overarching goal while making my guitars is to give them a certain consistency of expression while preserving their unique personality. For me, this results from a cohesion of sound...

Friederike Linscheid

My overarching goal while making my guitars is to give them a certain consistency of expression while preserving their unique personality. For me, this results from a cohesion of sound...

Vicente Carrillo

Vicente Carrillo

His professional experience comes from the lengthy history of the Carrillo family (since 1744), out of which, he is the seventh generation guitar maker. This was the decisive factor for...

Vicente Carrillo

His professional experience comes from the lengthy history of the Carrillo family (since 1744), out of which, he is the seventh generation guitar maker. This was the decisive factor for...

Paulino Bernabe

Paulino Bernabe

I was born among guitars, on 9 June 1960 in Madrid, in the workshop where my father worked. We lived upstairs and I was lucky enough that from a very...

Paulino Bernabe

I was born among guitars, on 9 June 1960 in Madrid, in the workshop where my father worked. We lived upstairs and I was lucky enough that from a very...

Stefan Nitschke

Stefan Nitschke

I was born 1982. When I was eleven years old, I started to play guitar. Since then, this instrument never lost ist hold of me! After a short period of...

Stefan Nitschke

I was born 1982. When I was eleven years old, I started to play guitar. Since then, this instrument never lost ist hold of me! After a short period of...

Walter Verreydt

Walter Verreydt

Walter Verreydt made his first instruments in 1985. As a teacher wood working and a music lover it was a logical step to the interest in the construction of musical...

Walter Verreydt

Walter Verreydt made his first instruments in 1985. As a teacher wood working and a music lover it was a logical step to the interest in the construction of musical...

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