Michael Kennedy (formerly Indian Hill Guitar Company) makes acoustic guitars in Montreal, Canada. He graduated from Cornell with a degree in Mechanical Engineering before staring a three year apprenticeship with master luthier Sergei de Jonge,

Source: Michael Kennedy Guitars website (11 October 2023)

Masch guitars and basses are made in Metz, France by Mathieu Schmitt. Schmitt is a self-taught luthier who has been making instruments since 2011. He studied at Metz Art School where he learned photography, painting, design, engraving, graphics, sculpture, etc. techniques which he uses in his guitar making. Schmitt is also a multi-instrumentalist and composer, who is interested in sound engineering and acoustics, his vision when building instruments is to create total works, where music and the visual arts can complement each other.

Source: Masch Guitars website (2 October 2023)

Soundsation is a division of Frenexport, an Italian music gear and pro audio distributor founded in 1976.

Marathon was a brand sold by the German musical instrument distributor Roland Meinel. In the 1980s and 1990s Marathon electric guitars were made in Korea, but the brand name was discontinued by the end of the 1990s.

Ned Whittemore has been making guitars since 1977. Ned started out building guitars professionally as Mill City Guitar Works in Minneapolis in 1981. He moved to Southern California in 1989 and changed his company name to Mill City West.  All his early guitars are branded Mill City.  He began using his own name (Whittemore Guitars) around 2005, but all Whittmore & Mill City guitars were hand made by Ned. Whitmore makes electric guitars (including archtop, semi-hollow and solid body designs) as well as Martin style acoustics and classical guitars.

Source: Whittemore Guitars website (11 April 2023)

Ian Dickinson is a Scottish guitar maker who studied with William C Kelday, Paul Hyland and Michael Ritchie on the musical instrument making course at Anniesland College from 2005 until 2007. He then spent time repairing and restoring instruments while also working as the head technician for a major Scottish guitar maker. He left to start his own business and in 2015 opened the guitar workshop in Argyle Street, Glasgow. In 2022 the workshop moved to the south side of Glasgow. Dickinson specialises in making acoustic guitars and his range includes small jumbo, parlour, OO and L0 styles.

Source: Ian Dickinson guitars website (4 March 2023)))

Pinehome guitars are made in Norway by Tom Furuheim. Tom started out making guitars out of parts for his son. He then became inspired to build acoustic guitars and spent a year studying acoustic guitar construction and gathering the right tools. In 2011 he set up his workshop, and in 2012 Pinehome Guitars was born. He made 3 different acoustic guitar models and 26 instruments in total before stopping and selling most of his tools. A year later his cousin asked him to make a telecaster electric - and his passion was rekindled, launching the Pinehome electric era. He now builds fantastic electric guitars in a new workshop - the range includes the iconic classic American designs as well as Pinehome originals.

Source: Pinehome guitars website (3 March 2023)

Thomas Friedrich is a German classical guitar maker. He trained as a model maker and worked for many years in casting and prototyping before retraining as a luthier in Mittenwald (from 2004 to 2007). He was the head of the repair and restoration workshop at Zupfgeige in Karlsruhe. He was awarded his Master Craftsman certificate in plucked instruments in 2017. In 2019 he opened a new workshop in Gaimersheim, Bavaria.

Source: Thomas Friedrich website (22 February 2023)

Casa Dotesio was a Bilbao musical publishing house, which went on to become Unión Musical Española. It was the largest Spanish music publishing company from 1900 and 1914. It was founded by Louis Ernest Dotesio (born in Paris, 1855) who was a chemist and lithographer. Dotesio was a founding member of the Bilbao Graphic Arts Society and a musical and operatic impresario. In 1885 Dotesio opened his first music shop (in calle María Muñoz, nº 8), where he began to sell his own editions of musical works by local composers.

Timofey Tkach is a Russian luthier who makes classical guitars.