: one who makes stringed musical instruments (such as violins or guitars)
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According to his website, Kanneh-Mason’s cello, which is on indefinite loan to him, was made in 1700 by famed Venetian luthier Matteo Goffriller.
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Amarachi Orie, CNN, 13 Dec. 2024
Next to that was a miniature replica, built by a luthier in Connecticut, of the Wall of Sound speaker array, from fifty summers ago, out of which issued a playlist presumably assembled from Lemieux’s hissy tapes.
—Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 22 July 2024
The museum houses Stradivari, Amati, and Guarneri violins and cellos dating back to the 16th century, as well as recent masterworks by the world’s best luthiers.
—Julie Orringer, Travel + Leisure, 14 May 2024
Likely the first commercial banjo maker in the United States was German immigrant luthier William Boucher Jr., who set up shop downtown in the 1840s.
—Dillon Mullan, Baltimore Sun, 18 Apr. 2024
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Amarachi Orie, CNN, 13 Dec. 2024
Next to that was a miniature replica, built by a luthier in Connecticut, of the Wall of Sound speaker array, from fifty summers ago, out of which issued a playlist presumably assembled from Lemieux’s hissy tapes.
—Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 22 July 2024
The museum houses Stradivari, Amati, and Guarneri violins and cellos dating back to the 16th century, as well as recent masterworks by the world’s best luthiers.
—Julie Orringer, Travel + Leisure, 14 May 2024
Likely the first commercial banjo maker in the United States was German immigrant luthier William Boucher Jr., who set up shop downtown in the 1840s.
—Dillon Mullan, Baltimore Sun, 18 Apr. 2024
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“Luthier.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/luthier. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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