Editing Luthier (section)

=== Guitars ===
{{Further|Classical guitar making|List of guitar manufacturers}}

[[File:Madrid luthier.jpg|thumb|left|A luthier  in Madrid, Spain is making the side section of classical guitar body]]

Two luthiers of the early 19th century connected with the development of the modern classical guitar are [[Louis Panormo]] and [[Georg Staufer]].<ref>The Guitar (From The Renaissance To The Present Day) by Harvey Turnbull (Third Impression 1978) – Publisher: Batsford. p.&nbsp;68 (Ponormo) and p.&nbsp;70 (Georg Staufer) – Chapter 4 (The Development Of The Instrument).</ref> [[Antonio Torres Jurado]] is credited with developing the form of [[classical guitar]] still in use. [[Christian Frederick Martin|C.F. Martin]] of Germany developed a form that evolved into the modern steel-string acoustic guitar.

[[File:Luthier Robert Benedetto in 1976.jpg|thumb|upright=.9|American guitar luthier [[Robert Benedetto]] is levelling a guitar soundboard in his studio ({{circa}} 1976)]]
The American luthier [[Orville Gibson]] specialized in mandolins, and is credited with creating the [[archtop guitar]].<ref>{{cite book | last1 = Gruhn | first1 = George | title = Gruhn's Guide to Vintage Guitars
 | date      = 1991 | publisher = GPI Books | location = San Francisco | isbn = 978-0-87930-195-8  | page  = 73 <!-- pages = 352 -->}}</ref> The 20th-century American luthiers [[John D'Angelico]] and [[Jimmy D'Aquisto]] made archtop guitars.  [[Lloyd Loar]] worked briefly for the [[Gibson Guitar Corporation]] making mandolins and guitars. His designs for a family of arch top instruments (mandolin, mandola, guitar, et cetera) are held in high esteem by today's luthiers, who seek to reproduce their sound.{{Citation needed|date=September 2021}} C. F. Martin apprenticed to Johann Georg Stauffer, a guitar maker in Vienna, Austria and [[C. F. Martin & Company|Martin & Co.]] was born, with the X bracing being developed in the 1850s. Martin & Co still produce acoustic guitars. [[Paul Bigsby]]'s innovation of the [[tremolo arm]] for archtop and [[electric guitar]]s is still in use and may have influenced [[Clarence Leonidas Fender|Leo Fender]]'s design for the [[Stratocaster]] solid-body electric guitar, as well as the [[Fender Jaguar|Jaguar]] and [[Jazzmaster]].{{Citation needed|date=September 2021}}  Concurrent with Fender's work, guitarist [[Les Paul]] independently developed a solid-body electric guitar. These were the first fretted, solid-body electric guitars—though they were preceded by the cast [[aluminum]] "[[Frying pan (guitar)|frying pan]]", a solid-body electric [[lap steel guitar]] developed and eventually patented by [[George Beauchamp]], and built by [[Adolph Rickenbacher]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gruhn.com/articles/rickelectro.html |title=Rickenbacker Electro Spanish Guitar |first=George |last=Gruhn |access-date=2006-11-04 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061030065143/http://www.gruhn.com/articles/rickelectro.html |archive-date=2006-10-30 }}</ref>
A company founded by luthier Friedrich [[Gretsch]] and continued by his son and grandson, Fred and Fred, Jr., originally made banjos, but now mainly produce electric guitars.{{Citation needed|date=September 2021}}