How to Use luthier in a Sentence

luthier

noun
  • However, a great luthier can make most any wood sound incredible.
    — Smithsonian Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 May 2022
  • Not one of the aspiring luthiers, however, followed the exact directions — all veered off on their own path.
    — Annaliza Savage, WIRED, 20 Mar. 2013
  • But throughout his career, Robinson has also used instruments made by boutique luthiers.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 31 Oct. 2013
  • Learning to play guitar on acoustic instruments handmade by a local luthier.
    — Scott Eden, Rolling Stone, 1 Feb. 2026
  • The desperate young man made a point of showing up to see a band one night where the luthier, Doug Naselroad, was performing.
    — Amy Chillag, CNN, 18 Sep. 2020
  • The organization has a few special-interest groups such as women woodworkers, toy makers and luthiers.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Sep. 2019
  • Musicians, luthiers, and scientists have tried for decades to figure out what gives a Strad its beautiful sound, yet no one has ever quite replicated it.
    — Chuck Squatriglia, Popular Science, 10 Jan. 2020
  • Traditional artist David Gerard of Homer will purchase tools and travel to study with a master luthier.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 11 May 2018
  • Wolf was the first of several instruments that famed luthier Doug Irwin designed for Garcia.
    — Patrick May, The Mercury News, 1 June 2017
  • And who better to build it than Reuben Forsland, the Canadian luthier who had crafted Slash’s guitar?
    — Ellen Ruppel Shell, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2022
  • At its center is Sam, a lonely luthier with the extraordinary ability to hear the constant noise of other people’s minds.
    — Jd Linville, Variety, 18 May 2026
  • Specimens can earn a few thousand dollars each at a lumberyard, from which the wood will eventually find its way to specialty furniture makers and luthiers.
    — Lauren Markham, Harper's Magazine, 1 July 2022
  • The luthier suggested his own veneering technique, involving a spray-on liquid that stabilizes the wood from cracking under severe heat.
    — Steve Knopper, Billboard, 22 Apr. 2022
  • Acosta’s father, Miguel Acosta, was a guitar and bajo sexto luthier and innovator.
    — Hector Saldana, ExpressNews.com, 13 Jan. 2021
  • Eddie Monnier, founder of Luthiers for a Cause, posed the question of what would happen if a half-dozen of the world’s best luthiers put their skills into the project using the same exact wood.
    — Pam Kragen, sandiegouniontribune.com, 4 June 2017
  • In the meantime, the team hopes their virtual violin will prove useful for luthiers in the early design process, enabling them to test the effects of various parameters, such as wood type or body thickness.
    — ArsTechnica, 4 May 2026
  • Playing a blue bass custom-made by Huntsville luthier Tom Shepard, Anderson became a tasteful bassist, whether using a pick or his fingers.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 12 Apr. 2021
  • If the violin world errs conservative, the reasons, according to the luthier Julie Reed-Yeboah, are self-evident.
    — Jennifer Gerste, The New Yorker, 2 July 2021
  • The endeavor will help bring new life to four instruments donated to the school district in 1937 by local luthier Frank Chatfield.
    — Milwaukee, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 Sep. 2017
  • Violin makers, aka luthiers, traditionally learn from hands-on experience how to craft parts and select materials to shape an instrument’s final sound.
    — ArsTechnica, 4 May 2026
  • Ever the engineer, Joe is fascinated with how technology enables luthiers to build instruments with greater precision.
    — Bill Lohmann, The Seattle Times, 14 Jan. 2018
  • Blue cursive ink on its interior indicated it was built by a Parisian luthier named Joseph Bassot in 1802.
    — Alex Vadukul, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2018
  • Garcia instructed the creator, Alembic Guitars luthier Doug Irwin, not to hold back when making the instrument.
    — Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 15 Mar. 2026
  • Worth millions of British pounds, it was crafted in 1726, when Antonio Stradivari, the Cremonese luthier, was in his eighties.
    — John Phipps, New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2026
  • If one of them needs repair or restoration, their owners — wealthy collectors and world-class performers, mostly — call John Becker, a master luthier with a shop in downtown Chicago.
    — Seyward Darby, Longreads, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Since then, luthiers have tirelessly tried to imitate Stradivari’s and Guarneri’s craftsmanship, copying their wood choice, geometry and construction methods.
    — Steph Yin, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2016
  • Most but not all such farms feature an in-ground pool, stables, two horses, four types of garden (vegetable, butterfly, Zen, tulip), a neighbor who is a luthier, and a quintet of Araucana hens that lay splendid blue-green eggs.
    — David Kamp, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2022
  • In the four and a half centuries since the Cremonese luthier Andrea Amati helped bring the modern-day violin to life, the instrument has become an object of near-religious devotion.
    — Jennifer Gerste, The New Yorker, 2 July 2021
  • Made by Antonio Stradivari, an Italian master luthier, the violins are regarded as among the world’s best and most valuable because of their beautiful tone and craftsmanship.
    — Corinne Ramey, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2020
  • The success of Marchita brought the kind of opportunities that Estrada — the daughter of luthiers from the verdant hills of Coatepec, Veracruz — had dreamed of just a few years earlier.
    — Cat Cardenas, Rolling Stone, 13 Oct. 2025

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