Orville Gibson

male, deceased (1918)
Orville H. Gibson (1856 - August 21 1918, Chateaugay, New York) was a luthier who founded the Gibson Guitar Corporation in Kalamazoo, Michigan in...
Paul Reed Smith

Paul Reed Smith

male, 53 years old
Paul Reed Smith is one of the world's premier luthiers and the founder and owner of PRS Guitars. His electric guitars are played by the likes of...
Lloyd Loar

Lloyd Loar

male, deceased (1943)
Lloyd Allayre Loar (1886-1943) was a Gibson sound engineer and master luthier in the early part of the 20th century. He is most famous for his F5...
Ted McCarty

Ted McCarty

male, deceased (2001)
Ted McCarty was a pioneer of electric guitar design and production, which began when he was President of the of Gibson Guitar Corporation. During...
Mary Ford

Mary Ford

female, deceased (1977)
Mary Ford (aka Iris Colleen Hatfield) (July 7, 1924, El Monte, California, - September 30, 1977, Arcadia, California), vocalist and guitarist, was...
Trini Lopez

Trini Lopez

male, 72 years old
Trini Lopez is a Mexican-American singer and guitarist. Lopez made his name on the club circuit of the Southwestern United States before being...
Seth Lover

Seth Lover

male, deceased (1997)
Seth Lover (January 1 1910 in Kalamazoo, Michigan - January 31 1997 in Garden Grove, California) is most famous for inventing the humbucker or...
Joe Diffie

Joe Diffie

male, 50 years old
Joe Diffie (born December 28, 1958, in Tulsa, Oklahoma) is an American country musician. He was raised in Velma, Oklahoma. He worked in a foundry...
Paul Bigsby

Paul Bigsby

male, deceased (1968)
Paul Adelburt Bigsby (1899-1968) was the designer of the Bigsby vibrato arm (also known as a tremolo arm) and proprietor of Bigsby Guitars. He...
Phil Leadbetter

Phil Leadbetter

male
Phil Leadbetter is one of the leading players of the resonator guitar. In 2005 he was voted International Bluegrass Music Association Dobro Player...