This Alphabetical Directory of Instrument Makers and Others Includes Only Instruments Featured on This Website; It Does Not Include Thousands of Other Instruments That Are Not Yet Posted

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G.,  D.:

Treble Lute,  northern Italy (1500)

Gaehle  (Knabe,  Gaehle,  and Company):

Square Piano,  Baltimore (1839-1854)

Gagliano,  Ferdinando:

Violoncello Piccolo,  Naples (1793)

Gagliano,  Niccolo:

Viola d'amore,  Naples (1750-1760)

Gahn,  Johann Benedikt:

Treble (Alto) Recorder in F,  Nürnberg (before 1711)

Garret:

Oboe,  London (1826-1862)

Gasparo da Salo:

	Bass and Contrabass Viols,  Brescia (before 1609)
	Viola,  Brescia (before 1609)

Gaulard, François Jude:

Violin bow, Mirecourt (1845-1850)

Gautrot aîné:

	Oboe, Paris (ca. 1850-1880)
	Cornopean in C, Paris (1870)

Gavinies,  Francois:

Pardessus (treble) Viol,  Bordeaux (1728)

Gedney,  Caleb:

Oboe,  London (1755)

Geib, Adam:

Flute in C, New York (1816-1827)

Geisler and Co., Eugene:

Snare Drum, Chicago (1925)

Gentner, Alois:

Trumpet in C, Dillingen, Bavaria (1860)

Germain, Jacques:

Harpsichord, Paris (1785)

Harpsichord (after Jacques Germain, Paris, 1785) by Thomas and Barbara Wolf, The Plains, Virginia (1994)

Gerock,  Christopher:

	Clarinet in B-flat,  London (1832-1837)
	Clarinet in C,  London (1832-1837)

Getzen:

See Inventory of Arnold Ruskin Collection

Gibson:

	Checklist of Gibson Banjos
	Checklist of Acoustic Guitars by Gibson
	Checklist of Electric Guitars by Gibson
	Checklist of Gibson Mandolins
	Violoncello by Gibson, Inc., Kalamazoo, Michigan, March 1942

Gibson,  Orville:

	Lyre-mandolin, Kalamazoo, Michigan (ca. 1898-1902)
	Guitar,  Kalamazoo (1902)
	Mandolin,  Kalamazoo (1903)

Gibson,  William:

English Guitar (cittern),  Dublin (1782)

Gilbert,  Timothy,  and Company:

Square Piano with Æolian Attachment (Combined Piano and Reed Organ),  Boston (1853)

Gimpel:

Clarinet in B-flat,  Lahr, Germany (1800-1825)

Glasser, Leon:

Violin bow, Bronx, New York (ca. 1938-1962)

Glier, Ernst Ferdinand:

Circular Cornet,  Cochecton, New York (1860)

Goble,  Robert:

Clavichord,  Oxford (1948)

Godefroy aîné,  Clair:

Clarinet in E-flat,  Paris (1818-1821)

Götz,  Sebastian:

Violin, Germany (1890-1930)

Gold Tone:

Plectrum Banjo, Dalian, China (May 2009)

Good, Jim:

Appalachian Dulcimer, Gandeeville, West Virginia (ca. 1975)

Gore, H. B.:

Sruti-box, Belgaum, Karnataka, India (ca. 1940)

Gough, Hugh:

Spinet, London (1957)

Goulding & Company:

	Clarinet in C,  London (1800-1815)
	Clarinet in B-flat,  London (1809-1810)

Goulding & D'Almaine:

Square piano, London (1825)

Goulding-Wood & Company:

Clarinet in B-flat,  London (1815-1820)

Gragnani,  Antonio:

Violin,  Livorno (1788)

Grammer Guitar Company:

	Guitar, Nashville (1969)
	Guitar, Nashville (1971)

Grancino,  Giovanni:

Quinton by Carlo Testore,  Milan (1693)

Grand-Gérard, Jean-Baptiste:

Violin, Mirecourt (1780-1820)

Grassi,  Barnaba:

Oboe,  Milan (1797-1802)

Graves and Alexander:

Clarinet in C,  Winchester,  New Hampshire (1827-1833)

Graves and Company:

	Checklist of Instruments by Graves & Company
	Clarinet in C,  Winchester,  New Hampshire (1830)
	Keyed bugle in E-flat,  Winchester (1830-1840)
	Clarinet in C,  Winchester (1830-1850)
	Clarinet in E-flat,  Winchester (1833-1845)
	Clarinet in E-flat,  Winchester (1835)
	Bass Ophicleide,  Winchester (1835)
	Keyed Bugle in E-flat,  Winchester (1835)
	Baritone Trombacello,  Winchester (1842-1848)
	Cornet in E-flat, with echo attachment, Boston (1851)

Greenhill,  Joseph:

Keyed Trumpet in F,  London (1830)

Greenway,  Henry:

Double Chromatic Harp,  Brooklyn  (1895)

Grenser,  Carl Augustin I ("Augustin" or "August"):

	Bassoon,  Dresden (1755)
	Clarinet in A,  Dresden (1785)

Grenser,  Heinrich:

	Bassoon, Dresden (1796-1806)
	Clarinet in C,  Dresden (1796-1806)
	Flute,  Dresden (1796-1807)

Gretsch:

Harmonica,  Chromatic,  Germany (after 1930)

Gretsch Drum Company:

	Parade Drum, New York (1950-1960)
	Parade Drum, New York (1950-1969)

Gretsch Manufacturing Co., Fred:

	Banjo-ukulele, Brooklyn, New York (ca. 1925-1940)
	Five-string Resonator Banjo, Brooklyn, New York (ca. 1940)

Grinde,  Honoré:

Harpsichord,  Paris (1683)

Gronert, William J.:

Flute, Elkhart (1912-1917)

Grundmann,  Jakob Friedrich:

Oboe,  Dresden (1784)

Guarneri,  Andrea:

Tenor Viola,  Cremona (1664)

Guarracino,  Onofrio:

Octave Virginal,  Naples (1694)

Gudelsky,  Paul:

Short Biography and Workshop Exhibit

Guichard, A. G.:

Trumpet in F, Paris (1840)

Guidantus,  Johannes Florenus:

Bass Viola da Gamba,  Bologna (1728)

Guild:

Checklist of Guitars by Guild, Westerly, Rhode Island (1976)

Guild Guitars, Inc.:

Consult Checklist Ukuleles

Gulbransen:

Electric organ, Deerfield, Illinois (ca. 1970s)

Gütter,  Heinrich Gottlob:

Clarinet in B-flat,  Bethlehem,  Pennsylvania (1820-1825)

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