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Makers

For companies and individual craft workers making musical instruments. This top-level category is for sites covering instruments in more than one musical family. Also see subcategories for more specific instrument categories.

Sites may promote or illustrate the products of an instrument maker, demonstrate his techniques, or give biographical, historic or other information.

Also for sites providing information of interest to makers of instruments, either professional or amateur. This may include, kits, plans, online instructions, parts or specialized tool suppliers.

Forums, newgroups and mailing lists are also appropriate

Sites in Makers

The Musical Instrument Makers Forum
Discussion of construction, design and repair; all instruments and skill levels.

Musicmaker's Kits, Inc.
Kits with precut parts, including a variety of harp, flute, dulcimer, psaltery and Appalachian style instruments. Stillwater, Minnesota, United States.

Au Bois Tourné
Manufacture and sale of lectern and table-top music stands made of solid beechwood with a stained or waxed walnut finish. In English and French.

Folk Stuff
How to and where to information for musicians and builders. Folk and experimental musical instruments; including dulcimers, autoharps, kalimbas, theremins, didjeridus, pennywhistles and flutes.

Sunreed Instruments
Bamboo flutes, bamboo saxophones, didgeridoos, crystal bowls, shakuhachi, bamboo clarinets, Native American flutes, drums, and world instruments. A small workshop in the Green Mountains of southern Vermont.

Tibor Koblicek
Maker of folk instruments, including the ninera, a violin style instrument. Based in Slovakia.

Noteworthy Instruments
John Huron, maker of oldtime and Appalachian music instruments. Dulcimer, mountain banjo, mountain lark, mouthbow, gourd bankar, mouthbow, kazoo. Bristol, Tennessee, United States.

Music Magic
Handmade by Tim Manning, hammered and Appalachian dulcimers, psalterys, lyres, tongue drums and others. Based in Bristol, United Kingdom.

Jubilee Instruments & Crafts
Maker of folk music instruments, tin whistles, flutes and chromatic whistles. Located in Kings Mills, Ohio, United States.

Cyber Products
Manufacturer of (M.U.D), a dehumidifier for instruments. Includes company profile, dealer information and product details. Auckland, New Zealand.

International Luthiers Supply, Inc.
Stringed instrument making and repair supplies. Tools, parts, kits, catalog in PDF format. Tulsa, Oklahama, United States.

Bausatz-Zentrale
Sales of kits and manufactured historical instruments such as the clavichord, virginal, harpsichord, shawm, crumhorn, psaltery and rackett. Photos.

Road to the Isles
Maker of Irish bouzoukis, mandolins, mandolas, harps. Also creates unfinished kits. Prince George, British Columbia, Canada.

Strum Hollow Acoustic Music
Custom makers of lap dulcimers and banjos. Also manufactures musical spoons, washboards, and sell a variety of other instruments.

A World of Bamboo Craft Shop
Handcrafted saxophones, moxenos, maribas, ocarinas, and quenas. Acoustic diagrams and discussion. Buenos Aires, Argentina. [English/Spanish]

Drums and Flutes
Hand crafted rope tension drums, slit/tongue drums, Native American flutes. Hand made by Anthony James in the United Kingdom.

Downcellar Music
Hand-crafted folk instruments (e.g., banjos, fiddles, and kalimbas) made from cigar boxes, cookie tins, whiskey tins, olive oil tins and gourds.

Production and Sale of Jew's Harp
Peter Sobota, producer and vendor. Price list, images and samples of music. [English/Slovenky]

Harmontown Music
Six and three string guitars manufactured from cigar boxes. Also creates other folk instruments.

Schmelzer Musical Instruments
Handmade brass instruments and banjos.

Blissful Bamboo Flutes
Bamboo flutes hand crafted in North America. Available in a variety of sizes in both major and minor scales.

Tribal Thunder
Designs, handcrafts, and plays percussion and wind instruments. Offers presentations, events, and teaching sessions in the Delhi, Ontario area.