Musical Instrument Makers

Makers and inventors whose engineering work was the mechanism of a musical instrument, such as the hammer action that lets a keyboard sound loud and soft, the valve systems of brass and woodwind instruments and the stringing and tuning mechanisms of harps and pianos. A person belongs here when the cited article credits them with inventing or substantially redesigning an instrument or its working mechanism. Makers of clocks and measuring instruments belong in the precision instrument group of the same field, and the study of sound itself belongs with the acoustics group.