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: one who makes stringed musical instruments (such as violins or guitars)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Dillon Mullan, Baltimore Sun, 18 Apr. 2024
Burgess grew up in Boston, studying at Indiana University and later apprenticing under luthier Otis Tomas in Nova Scotia.
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Caroline Eubanks, Southern Living, 30 Apr. 2024
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Word History
Etymology
French, from luth lute (from Middle French lut)
First Known Use
1879, in the meaning defined above
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“Luthier.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/luthier. Accessed 2 Dec. 2024.
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