Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that makes or repairs stringed instruments, such as violins.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who makes wooden stringed instruments, such as violins, guitars, etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who, or a business which, makes or
repairs stringed wooden musical instruments , such aslutes ,violins , andguitars .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a craftsman who makes stringed instruments (as lutes or guitars or violins)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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| '' 'luthier'''-''a maker of stringed instruments such as violins or guitars' '
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009
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Call my friend Alejandro Díaz Martínez, master luthier, extraordinary professor at the UdeQ, and owner of Violin Shop Querétaro.
Rentar contrabajos en Queretaro/Bass rental in Queretaro 2009
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She convinced a local luthier to adjust it so she could play diminished chords that have what she called "a peculiar quality."
From Punk to Pacifism Jim Fusilli 2011
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Call my friend Alejandro Díaz Martínez, master luthier, extraordinary professor at the UdeQ, and owner of Violin Shop Querétaro.
Rentar contrabajos en Queretaro/Bass rental in Queretaro 2009
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Call my friend Alejandro Díaz Martínez, master luthier, extraordinary professor at the UdeQ, and owner of Violin Shop Querétaro.
Rentar contrabajos en Queretaro/Bass rental in Queretaro 2009
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Call my friend Alejandro Díaz Martínez, master luthier, extraordinary professor at the UdeQ, and owner of Violin Shop Querétaro.
Rentar contrabajos en Queretaro/Bass rental in Queretaro 2009
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So a month or so back, stwish (who happens to be my dad, and who also happens to be a luthier) send me an electric guitar he made from the wood of a bradford pear that netcurmudgeon's dad cut down due to structural unsoundness, which wood I then drove down to North Carolina in the bed of Eunice, the now-dead former little red truck that could.
if we got married, would that be cool? frankwu 2009
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Stephen McSwain is a luthier (string instrument maker), musician and artist living in Los Angeles.
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Funky looking 3 neck acoustic-electric guitar Pikasso, made by luthier Linda Manzer for guitarist Pat Metheny
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Lohman billed bluegrass picker and luthier Wayne Henderson - the jocular subject of the book "Clapton's Guitar: Watching Wayne Henderson Build the Perfect Instrument" as well as recipient of a National Heritage Fellowship - as the evening's most eminent star, but Henderson seemed happy just to melt into the background.
In concert: Music from the Crooked Road: Mountain Music of Virginia at Reston Center Stage 2010
vendingmachine commented on the word luthier
The player of a lute is called a lutenist, lutanist or lutist, and a maker of lutes (or any similar string instrument, or violin family instruments) is referred to as a luthier.
May 25, 2017