Matao was a house brand of Music West Inc a chain of music store franchises from Washington to Nevada. Matao instruments included acoustic, electric and bass guitars, banjos and madolins as well as effects pedals. The instruments were made in Japan or Korea from the late 1960s until the early 1980s.

Luigi "Lou" Mancuso was a venerable luthier in the Woodstock area of New York, who worked on the guitars of Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Van Morrison and The Band. He was actively making instruments until 2010: he died 3 years later in 2013 at the age of 96. He made around 300 instruments in total: mainly guitars, but also a smaller number of mandolins and violins.

Source: Reverb.com - Lou Mancuso archtop advert

Revival is an acoustic guitar and mandolin brand owned by distributer Major Music Supply (San Francisco, California).

Source: Revival guitars website (7 February, 2018)

New Zealand folk musician Peter Madill started making guitars using skills learned from a cabinet-making apprenticeship in the 1960s. He joined a violin repair business in 1973 which became The Stringed Instrument Company, a haven for musicians wanting anything from repairs to a custom builds. Madill was making guitars, mandolins and violins for New Zealand's top folk musicians but stopped making insturments in 1987 - in search of a more stable income. In 2007 Madill moved back to Dunedin and began making guitars again.

Source: Madill Guitars & Violins website (5 February 2018)

Lotus brand guitars were made from the late 1970s until the late 1990s. Some were made in Korea by Cort and Samick, others in Japan by Morris, some were also made in India. Lotus guitars were typically copies of Fender or Gibson designs.

Source: Wikipedia Lotus Guitars (17 Janaury 2018)

Lindell brand acoustic, electric & bass guitars were made in Japan from the 1960s onwards. Also mandolins and ukuleles.

John Le Voi has been making guitars since 1970. Since 1976 Le Voi has specialised in Selmer style Gypsy Jazz instruments, but also makes mandolins and flat-top acoustics.

Source: John Le Voi websiter (18 December 2017)

Jirí Lebeda has been making musical instruments since 1978. Lebeda plays in a bluegrass band in the Czech republic, and he concentrates on making bluegrass instruments - mandolins and resophonic guitars in particular. No private businesses were allowed in the Czech (socialist) Republic when Lebeda first started, he worked part-time until restrictions were lifted in 1989. Since then  Lebda has sold his mandolins and resophonic guitars on the international market.

Source: Lebeda Guitars website (12 December 2017)

Bob Laughlin makes guitars, mandolins, bouzoukis and violins in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Source: Laughlin Guitars website (6 December 2017)

Urs Langenbacher trained at the Mittenwald School of Violin and Plucked Instrument Making. From 1992  he was employed by Master Violin Maker Pierre Chaubert in Füssen, Germany, entrusted with all repairs and restorations of plucked instruments as well as building of classical guitars and mandolins. In 1995 Langenbacher was awarded the “Meisterpreis der Bayerischen Staatsregierung” for the best result in the Master exams. Since 1999 he has been running his own workshop with luthier Pierre Chaubert under the historical roof of the old “Feuerhaus” in Füssen  across the valley from the famous Castle Neuschwanstein. Langenbacher recevied gold and silver medals with two concert guitars 2001 at the 5th International Guitar Makers’  Competition of the Assoziatione Liutaria Italiana in  Baveno, Italy. He was also awarded the German Musical Instrument Award 2008 for the classical guitar “personal design 2007”.