Dictionary of contemporary violin and bow makers
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| Adams, Oliver (a. 1939) | violin maker |
| Adams, Olivier | violin maker |
| Adler, R. | violin maker |
| Aifke, A.T. | violin maker |
| Alba (a. 1822) | luthier |
| Alberton, Elmer (b. 1919) | violin maker |
| Allen, George F. (b. 1907) | violin maker |
| Allison, Mort (a. 1964) | maker of metal bows |
| Almquist, Nathan John (b. 1893) | violin maker |
| Amen, Per (b. 1879) | violin maker |
| Angrisani, Saverio (a. 1914) | violin maker |
| Ansell, Norman | violin maker |
| Artindale, Frederick Henry (b. 1904) | violin maker |
| Atchley, Earsel V. (b. 1906) | luthier |
| Auverson, Sveinung (a. 1895-1904) | luthier |
| Bajde, Ivan (b. 1855 d. 1920) | violin maker |
| Banda, I. | violin dealer |
| Barbuto, Anthony F. | violin maker |
| Barclay, J. | violin maker |
| Barth, Robert (b. 1864 d. 1945) | violin maker |
| Baster, George E. | violin maker |
| Bator, Jevan (b. 1906) | violin maker |
| Batts, Jack (b. 1910) | violin maker |
| Beard, John (b. 1919) | violin maker |
| Beard, Richard (b. 1889) | violin maker |
| Beatson, R.G. | violin maker |
| Becker, Carl | luthier |
| Beilke, Martin (a. 1964) | bow maker |
| Belanger, Durell (b. 1916) | violin maker |
| Beli, Stevan (b. 1906) | violin maker |
| Bellinazzi, Giuseppe (d. 1940) | violin maker |
| Bellini, Luiz B. (b. 1935) | violin maker |
| Bender, E.W. (a. 1964) | bow maker |
| Bergamo, Domenico | violin maker |
| Bicknell, Stuart C. (b. 1919) | violin maker |
| Billey, John W. (b. 1918) | luthier |
| Billing | instrument maker |
| Bisiach, Giacomo (a. 1886) | luthier |
| Bisiach, Leandro (b. 1864 d. 1945 a. 1890-1914) | violin maker |
| Blaas, Karl (b. 1909) | violin maker |
| Black, London | violin maker |
| Bleejz, Alejz (b. 1932) | violin maker |
| Blondelet, E. | bow maker |
| Bocan, Lajos (b. 1912) | violin maker |
| Bonito, Fedele L. (b. 1914) | violin maker |
| Borelli, Antonio (b. 1921) | violin maker |
| Bostjan, Anton (b. 1759) | violin maker |
| Bowen, Thomas A.E. (b. 1909) | violin maker |
| Bratter, Leonard | violin maker |
| Breivik, Olav | violin maker |
| Briggs, Lewis Harold (b. 1891) | violin maker |
| Broad, J.M. | violin maker |
| Brown, Earl D. (b. 1892) | violin maker |
| Bryan, E.R. (b. 1900) | violin maker |
| Bultitude, Arthur Richard (b. 1908 d. 1990) | bow maker |
| Burch, Roy S. (b. 1886) | violin maker |
| Burrows, Russell J. (b. 1915) | violin maker |
| Bussey, Roy Redmond | violin maker |
| Campbell, Edward C. | violin maker |
| Castelli, Leonardo | violin maker |
| Cella, Frederico (b. 1907) | violin maker |
| Chapman, Ron (b. 1921) | violin maker |
| Chardon, Andre (b. 1887 d. 1963) | bow maker |
| Chenuz, Roger (b. 1892) | violin maker |
| Clare, Harry (b. 1884) | luthier |
| Cliff, Arland V. (b. 1899) | violin maker |
| Clyve, Harald (b. 1903) | violin maker |
| Collier, George X.M. (b. 1907) | violin maker |
| Collin-Mezin, Charles Jean Baptiste (b. 1841 d. 1923) | violin maker |
| Conlin, William Clifton (b. 1910) | violin maker |
| Consoli, E. | violin maker |
| Cook, George H. (b. 1918) | violin maker |
| Cook, R.H. | violin maker |
| Cooper, Clarence (b. 1919) | violin maker |
| Coughlin, John (b. 1878 d. 1940) | violin maker |
| Craig, Frederick (b. 1899) | violin maker |
| Crooke, E. | violin maker |
| Curry, Hiram B. | violin maker |
| Dahl, Mathias (b. 1888) | violin maker |
| Daniels, Samuel Wesley (b. 1915) | violin maker |
| Davisson, Hendrik (a. 1946) | Swedish luthier |
| Davy, William (a. 1914) | violin maker |
| Day, Laurence (b. 1896) | violin maker |
| Demanin, Jovan (b. 1905) | violin maker |
| Demoss, Ira (b. 1879) | violin maker |
| Dencinger, Adam (a. 1846-1912) | violin maker |
| Doerr, Keith Harold (b. 1914) | violin maker |
| Dooley, James W. (b. 1910) | violin maker |
| Doyles, John J. Hamilton (b. 1882) | violin maker |
| Drake, Laurence (b. 1893) | violin maker |
| Dubois, B. (a. 1834) | double bass, luthier |
| Dudas, Lajos (b. 1922) | violin maker |
| Dusek, Henry E. (b. 1909) | violin maker |
| Dykes, Arthur (d. 1962) | violin maker |
| Eilertsen, Chris (b. 1890) | violin maker |
| Eldridge, T. Irven (b. 1927) | violin maker |
| Ell, G. | violin maker |
| Elster, Jean Joseph | luthier |
| Engen, Sid. H. (b. 1902) | violin maker |
| Farina, Erminio (b. 1885 d. 1917) | violin maker |
| Farrotto, Celestino (b. 1864 d. 1925) | violin maker |
| Fattorini, Francesco (a. 1854) | string instrument maker |
| Fick, C. (a. 1850-1859) | violin, violin maker |
| Filipovic, Milan (b. 1900) | violin maker |
| Filipovic, Vojislav (b. 1923) | violin maker |
| Fisher, Leslie H. (b. 1904) | violin maker |
| Fissore, J. (b. 1827 d. 1915) | luthier |
| Flamand (a. 1840) | violin maker |
| Flint, James | violin maker |
| Flodstrom, L.E. (a. 1897) | musician, violin maker |
| Floris (b. 1936) | violin maker |
| Fogelberg, Thursten Fridole (b. 1888) | violin maker |
| Fooy, Guy J. (b. 1897) | violin maker |
| Foster, James Randell | violin maker |
| Franchi, Romeo | violin maker |
| Frazier, Leon Olney (b. 1923) | violin maker |
| Friess, George Thomas | violin maker |
| Fullerton, Charles B. (b. 1891) | violin maker, musician |
| Gabbitas, E. | violin maker |
| Gandy, T. Gene (b. 1909) | violin maker |
| Garimberti, Ferdinando (b. 1894 d. 1982) | violin maker |
| Garrett, G.W.R. | violin maker |
| Gibbons, Arthur William (b. 1914) | violin maker |
| Gillon, J.W. (b. 1906) | violin maker |
| Glade, James Vernon (b. 1888) | violin maker |
| Gliszezynski, Kazimierz | Polish luthier |
| Goetz, Menard A. (b. 1893) | violin maker |
| Gordon, M.E. (b. 1910) | violin maker |
| Grand, Louis L. (b. 1915) | violin maker |
| Grasser, Ben McKinley (b. 1897) | violin maker |
| Green, Garland T. | violin maker |
| Grieder, Felix | violin maker |
| Griffin, William Reid (b. 1911) | violin maker |
| Hall, William George | violin maker |
| Halvarson, Anders Ernfried (b. 1900) | violin maker |
| Halvarson, Oscar A. (b. 1888) | violin maker |
| Hardin, Burton E. | violin maker |
| Hardwick, J.E. | violin maker |
| Harris, A. | violin maker |
| Harrison, Benjamin F. (b. 1924) | violin maker |
| Haught, Eldon (b. 1942) | violin maker |
| Hayes, Theodore Harmond (b. 1916) | violin maker |
| Heinl, Frank (b. 1928) | string instrument maker |
| Heinl, George (b. 1891 d. 1980) | violin maker |
| Heizler, Joseph (b. 1906 d. 1944) | violin maker |
| Henderson, Frank V. | violin maker |
| Herpelinck, George W. (b. 1891) | violin maker |
| Hill, Andrew | violin maker |
| Hill, W.E. | violin maker |
| Hjorth, Arne (b. 1910) | violin maker |
| Hoffman, Edward (b. 1893) | violin maker |
| Hoibakke, Sig (b. 1901) | violin maker |
| Hoing, Clifford Alfred (b. 1903) | violin maker |
| Holden, David W. (b. 1904) | violin maker |
| Hood, E.L. | violin maker |
| Hood, William C. | violin maker |
| Horn, Joseph (b. 1810 d. 1870) | violin maker |
| Hume, Alfred (a. 1897) | violin maker |
| Hus, Ivan (b. 1898) | violin maker |
| Isaacson, Edward A. (b. 1896) | violin maker |
| Ivancic, August (b. 1880 d. 1944) | violin maker |
| Jacklin, Cyril William (b. 1902) | violin maker |
| Jacklin, Thomas (b. 1838 d. 1917) | violin maker |
| Jackson, Alfred H. (b. 1915) | violin maker |
| Jacot, A. | luthier |
| Jacot, W. | luthier |
| Jensen, Peter C. (d. 1930) | violin maker |
| Johnstone, Charles | violin maker |
| Jordan, Leon C. (b. 1919) | violin maker |
| Jorgens, Lubin Eugene (b. 1898) | violin maker |
| Josephs, James (b. 1859 d. 1943) | violin maker |
| Josephs, Pierre | violin maker |
| Josephs, Pierre Aloysius (b. 1834 d. 1898) | violin maker |
| Kamimoto, Hideo (b. 1940) | violin maker |
| Kantusar, Joze (b. 1923) | violin maker |
| Keith, C. | violin maker |
| Kelemen, Antal (b. 1886) | violin maker |
| Kidson, A.E. | violin maker |
| Kirkwood, William (b. 1884) | violin maker |
| Klaiber, Edwin Jacob (b. 1904) | violin maker |
| Kolai, Ivan (b. 1910) | violin maker |
| Kolstein, Samuel | violin maker |
| Kopps, Ernst (b. 1905) | violin maker |
| Kresnik, Franjo (b. 1886 d. 1943) | violin maker |
| Kulik, Jan (b. 1800 d. 1872) | violin maker |
| Laffoon, F.L. (b. 1887) | violin maker |
| Lahti, Hans H. (b. 1895) | violin maker |
| Langfurth, Karoly (b. 1810) | violin maker |
| Langonet, Alfred | violin maker |
| Lapwood, Ronald E. (b. 1904) | violin maker |
| Lee, C. | violin maker |
| Leleux, Lionel Isadore (b. 1912) | violin maker, fiddle |
| Litomericki, Matija (b. 1874) | violin maker |
| Little, William (b. 1898) | violin maker |
| Lohberg, Ernest (b. 1901) | violin maker |
| Lotz, Ralph (b. 1906) | violin maker |
| Lowe, William (b. 1899) | violin maker |
| Luff, William (b. 1904) | violin maker |
| Lukas, Gabriel (b. 1877) | violin maker |
| Lukesic, Matijas (b. 1790 d. 1810) | violin maker |
| Lyons, James (d. 1938) | violin maker |
| Lysak, Ray | violin maker |
| Lystad, Carl R. (b. 1924) | violin maker |
| Lytton | violin maker |
| Macdonald, C. | violin maker |
| Macdonald, Malcolm Finlay (b. 1883) | violin maker |
| Maechler, W.J. (b. 1908) | violin maker |
| Malecek, Karlo (b. 1900) | violin maker |
| Mann, Thomas Howells (a. 1909 active: 1920) | violin maker |
| Marotti, Franjo (b. 1900) | violin maker |
| Martinenghi, Marcello (b. 1907) | violin maker |
| Mayer, Friederich (b. 1885 d. 1905) | violin maker |
| McCormick, John K. (b. 1910) | violin maker |
| McCormick, Pleasant Dave (b. 1873 d. 1951) | violin maker |
| McNatt, William J. (b. 1913) | violin maker |
| Medonis, Peter Paul (b. 1892) | violin maker |
| Meier, Eric | violin maker |
| Meisel, Kurt Lothar (b. 1929) | violin maker |
| Meisel, Kurt Oswald (b. 1903) | violin maker |
| Milankovic, Anton (b. 1886) | violin maker |
| Mills, David John (b. 1920) | violin maker |
| Mitchell, John Geoffrey (b. 1920) | violin maker |
| Mladenovic, Milutin (b. 1915) | violin maker |
| Modic, Jovan (b. 1912) | violin maker |
| Moore, Howard L. (b. 1909) | violin maker |
| Moss, Edward Barry | violin maker |
| Moverley, Frederick G. | violin maker |
| Muinel, Daniel | violin maker |
| Murray, Douglas | violin maker |
| Music, Michael (b. 1870 d. 1948) | violin maker |
| Neff, Ellery L. (b. 1900) | violin maker |
| Nelson, George (b. 1901) | violin maker |
| Nemes, George | violin maker |
| Nemes, Stefan | violin maker |
| Newton, K.E. | violin maker |
| Nilsson, Albert (b. 1905) | violin maker |
| Nilsson, Bengt (b. 1926) | violin maker, composer |
| Nilsson, Gottfrid (b. 1889 d. 1952) | violin maker |
| Normann, Gustav (b. 1893) | violin maker |
| Nusinov, Reuben (b. 1883) | violin maker |
| Oliver, D. Barry (b. 1946) | violin maker |
| Oppedal, G.K. (b. 1893) | violin maker |
| Orlowski, Henri (b. 1923) | violin maker |
| Ornati, Giuseppe (b. 1897 d. 1965) | violin maker |
| Oskay, William Frederick (b. 1918) | violin maker |
| Ouchard, Bernard (b. 1925 d. 1979) | bow maker |
| Packard, Albert A. (b. 1891) | violin maker |
| Parzik, Karlo (b. 1887 d. 1963) | violin maker |
| Parzik-Tanasijevic, Lidija (b. 1928) | violin maker |
| Pascan, Svetolik (b. 1892 d. 1971) | composer, conductor |
| Pascoli, Guido (b. 1905) | violin maker |
| Pelsoci, Steven (b. 1861) | violin maker |
| Penc, Julius (b. 1893 d. 1942) | violin maker |
| Penc, Marija (b. 1900) | violin maker |
| Pendergast, Herbert C. (b. 1885) | violin maker |
| Petsarsky, Georges (b. 1880) | violin maker |
| Pfajfenrot, Josip (b. 1888) | violin maker |
| Pierce, Lyman C. (b. 1858) | violin maker |
| Pirtle, Ray Alva (b. 1909) | violin maker |
| Pitt, Darker (b. 1891) | violin maker |
| Plaveljsky, Ing Alexander (b. 1890 d. 1949) | violin maker |
| Plowright, Dennis G. (b. 1925) | violin maker |
| Pratt, Thos. W.H. (b. 1912) | luthier |
| Pratt, Wendell Eldridge (b. 1915) | violin maker |
| Puglise, Michaelangelo (a. 1919) | violin maker |
| Pullen, John Cecil (b. 1902 d. 1964) | violin maker |
| Puskas, Joseph (b. 1913) | violin maker |
| Raab, Eden (b. 1902) | violin maker |
| Raab, Karoly (b. 1860 d. 1943) | violin maker |
| Rafai, Nandor (b. 1907) | violin maker |
| Read, Arthur | violin maker |
| Reid, Joseph V. (b. 1910) | violin maker |
| Reiter, Carl E. (b. 1926) | violin maker |
| Rembish, Edward L. (b. 1917) | violin maker |
| Renno, Daniel C. (b. 1909) | violin maker |
| Retford, William Charles (b. 1875 d. 1970) | bow maker |
| Richardson, Clarence O. (b. 1909) | violin maker |
| Rook, Alvin Gordon (b. 1923) | violin maker |
| Ropson, Louis Joseph (b. 1903) | violin maker |
| Ross, John L. (b. 1889) | violin maker |
| Ross, William Post (b. 1938) | harpsichord maker |
| Roth, P.E. (b. 1930) | violin maker |
| Ruggiero, Matthew | violin maker |
| Rye, Richard (b. 1907) | violin maker |
| Sacchetti, Francesco Di (a. 1932) | violin maker |
| Sade, Adam (b. 1912) | violin maker |
| Salaj, P. Mrko (b. 1914) | violin maker |
| Sanborn, Gunnar Harald Valdemar (b. 1901) | violin maker |
| Saunders, David (b. 1916) | violin maker |
| Scarampella, Giuseppe (b. 1838 d. 1902) | compositore, direttore d'orchestre |
| Schertenlieb, Ernest | violin maker |
| Schmidtutz, Joseph (b. 1919) | violin maker |
| Schmutzer, Fritz (b. 1900) | violin maker |
| Schneider, Franjo (b. 1903) | violin maker |
| Scott, George W. (b. 1890) | violin maker |
| Sderci, Nicolo Iginio (b. 1884) | violin maker |
| Sears, Fred G. (b. 1901) | violin maker |
| Seic, Stevan (b. 1905 d. 1944) | violin maker |
| Siebel, Richard | violin maker |
| Sieben, Paul | violin maker |
| Sipe, John E. | violin maker |
| Skou, Bertel (b. 1883) | violin maker |
| Skou, Kristian (b. 1912) | violin maker |
| Skretteberg, Oscar (b. 1897) | violin maker |
| Smith, Dennis G. (b. 1919) | violin maker |
| Smith, Leonard N. (b. 1913) | violin maker |
| Smithson, William (a. 1799) | violin maker |
| Spicer, Peter S. (b. 1930) | violin maker |
| Starkman, Martin (b. 1924) | violin maker |
| Stendler, Anton (b. 1923) | violin maker |
| Stenholm, Robert F. (b. 1913) | violin maker |
| Stevens, Alfred (a. 1810) | violin maker |
| Stevens, Dale W. (b. 1924) | violin maker |
| Stevens, Glenn (b. 1899 d. 1974) | violin, violin maker |
| Stevens, Wallace (b. 1855 d. 1930) | violin maker |
| Stockton, Glen T. (b. 1946) | violin maker |
| Stoutenburgh, Harry | violin maker |
| Strasburg, Sidney (b. 1916) | violin maker |
| Stuekerjuergen, Edward J. (b. 1892) | violin maker |
| Sweetman | violin maker |
| Szajek, Joseph (b. 1917) | violin maker |
| Tamano, Hisakazu (b. 1940~) | violin maker |
| Tancer, George (b. 1885) | violin maker |
| Templing, David (b. 1904) | violin maker |
| Thomasson, William Clark (b. 1920) | violin maker |
| Thompson, Ralph S. (b. 1898) | violin maker |
| Tkac, Vladik J. (b. 1913) | violin maker |
| Toenniges, Paul S. (b. 1908) | violin maker |
| Toepke, W.D. (b. 1899) | violin maker |
| Tompsett, Jack A. | violin maker |
| Torma, Johann (b. 1885 d. 1956) | violin maker |
| Torma, Johann (b. 1919) | violin maker |
| Toskanovic, Vlada (a. 1902) | violin maker |
| Toudon, Paul | bow maker |
| Trbovic, Milan (b. 1912) | violin maker |
| True, Brinley (b. 1908) | violin maker |
| Truppel, Bela (b. 1879 d. 1947) | violin maker |
| Utz, Glenn H. (b. 1901) | violin maker |
| Vajda, Ivan (b. 1903 d. 1952) | violin maker |
| Vasic, R. Nikola (b. 1910) | violin maker |
| Vestergaard, Knud Michael (b. 1905 d. 1977) | violin maker |
| Vickers, J.E. (b. 1924) | violin maker |
| Voigt, E.R. (a. 1699) | violin maker |
| Voigt, Paul (d. 1992) | violin maker |
| Vystrcil, Charles (b. 1912) | violin maker |
| Wallace, Bob (b. 1904) | violin maker |
| Warren, A.L. (b. 1887) | violin maker |
| Warrick, Alan (b. 1919) | violin maker |
| Warrick, Alfred (b. 1890 d. 1962) | violin maker |
| Watson, Claude H. (b. 1913) | violin maker |
| Weber, Le Roy D. (b. 1935) | violin maker |
| Weisser, Ivan (b. 1840) | violin maker |
| Welstead, Cedric (a. 1964) | violin maker |
| Werner, Charles F. | violin maker |
| Wharton, Albert N. (b. 1900) | violin maker |
| White, Carmen (b. 1910) | violin maker |
| White, Tom (b. 1917) | violin maker |
| Whittle, Harold D. (b. 1919) | violin maker |
| Wilheim, Brigitte (b. 1932) | violin maker |
| Wilheim, Rolf (b. 1930) | violin maker |
| Wilson, John Harmon (b. 1903) | violin maker |
| Winfield, Henry (b. 1880) | violin maker |
| Withers, Edward Sidney Munns (b. 1870 d. 1955) | violin maker, repairer |
| Woodcock, Cyril (b. 1897) | violin maker |
| Woodward, C.F. | violin maker |
| Woollen, Anthony (a. 1951) | violin maker |
| Wynhoff, Walter S. (b. 1892) | violin maker |
| Zapelli, Francesco (b. 1898) | violin maker |
| Zasadil, Joannes (a. 1964) | violin maker |
| Zazman, Bob (b. 1937) | violin maker |
| Zimmermann, U.W. (b. 1934) | violin maker |