Philippe Berne is a French luthier who offers a wide rane of stringed instruments including: folk, classical or baroque guitar, 12-string, arpeggione (or bowed guitar), small guitar or with a triangle-shape body, Jo guitar (a banjo inside a guitar!), Weissenborn-type guitar, dreadnought, jumbo, gypsy jazz, and other inventions: the mano jazz guitar, the sun guitar, steel guitar, “chanteur” guitar (11-string guitar, with slide).