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String instrument manufacturers: the worldwide list
RevenueBase identified 825 string instrument manufacturers across the 5 countries with a published list, as of September 2026, and tracks 15,186 professional contacts across them, including 3,383 with verified work emails and 0 with mobile numbers. The United States is the largest market and London the largest hub.
This is the worldwide list of string instrument manufacturers: the 5 country lists RevenueBase publishes for the category, summed and ranked as one. The company count is that sum, not a census of every company on earth; a country with no published list is not counted. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 18, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest string instrument manufacturers across the 5 countries with a published list
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6,091 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The first Music & Arts, run by founder Benjamin O’Brien, opened in 1952 and was located in a small house in Bethesda, MD.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 1,953 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Since 1946, Fender has revolutionized music and culture as one of the world’s leading musical instrument manufacturers, marketers and distributors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 919 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Gibson, the leading iconic guitar brand, has shaped the sounds of generations of musicians and music lovers across genres for 127 years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 458 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Few can claim 17th century Renaissance Italy as the birthplace of their family start-up.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 398 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 1974 and now 100% employee-owned, Taylor Guitars is a leading manufacturer of premium acoustic and electric guitars.#taylorplayer Renowned for blending an innovative…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 330 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Conn Selmer is the leading manufacturer and distributor of musical instruments for students and professionals.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 176 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At Schmitt Music you'll find the best brands and a great selection of band and orchestra instruments, acoustic & digital pianos, sheet music & books, accessories, guitars &…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 152 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 1941, West Music’s mission to "encourage people of all ages and abilities to: Play now.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 144 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Ernie Ball was the first to offer rock strings with the creation of Slinkys, and further revolutionized the market by offering guitarists custom-guage single strings.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 115 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “CELEBRATING 60 YEARS IN BUSINESS!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 79 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Music works in enriching our lives.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 76 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Andertons Music Company is one of the world's most loved musical instrument retailers maintaining both a destination retail space and a world class e-commerce operation serving…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 75 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 1936 by J.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 61 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The UK's Largest Guitar Retailer.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 59 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Schecter Guitar Research is a leading manufacturer of premium Musical Instruments providing Acoustic & Electric Guitars and Basses to musicians around the world through strategic…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 55 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Brook Mays & H&H Music, founded in Dallas Texas in 1901, is the oldest and largest family owned music store in Texas.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 52 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Ted Brown Music is a family-owned full-service music store established in 1931.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 47 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Eckroth Music, an employee-owned company serving the music industry since 1972, specializes in band and orchestra instruments, accessories, method books and instrument repair.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 41 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “KALA BRAND MUSIC is the result of an ever-expanding vision of quality, affordable instruments.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 41 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Nick Rail Music, established in Santa Barbara, California in 1986, is first and foremost a band and orchestral dealer, catering to both the school market and the private or…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 40 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “White House of Music is southeast Wisconsin's largest full-service music retail store and a familiar name in area schools since 1953.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 39 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We have served the Greater Boston string-playing community since 1976.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 39 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “ESP Guitar Co is a music company based out of 10903 Vanowen St, North Hollywood, CA, United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 37 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “König & Meyer steht nunmehr seit mehr als 75 Jahren für durchdachtes Musikzubehör Made in Germany KÖNIG & MEYER GmbH & Co.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 35 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “For over 50 years StewMac has been the company the guitar industry turns to when they need to keep their instruments playing great.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: string instrument manufacturers. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names string instrument manufacturers.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of string instrument manufacturers, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name string instrument manufacturers. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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String instrument manufacturers worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 18, 2026Companies by employee count
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among string instrument manufacturers, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- Coverage
- This worldwide list is the sum of the 5 country lists RevenueBase publishes for string instrument manufacturers, largest first: the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Canada, Australia. Its company and contact totals add up those lists, so they understate the true worldwide figures: a country with no published list is not counted. The ranked table is exact across the countries covered, the largest companies of every country list ranked together with duplicates removed.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “string instrument manufacturers”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names string instrument manufacturers), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among string instrument manufacturers, and records with no verified work email.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 3,383 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- The country lists behind this page were pulled from the company graph on September 18, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
String instrument manufacturers by location
5 lists · largest firstEvery String instrument manufacturers list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date; the worldwide figures above are the sum of the 5 country lists.
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Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names string instrument manufacturers, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many string instrument manufacturers are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 825 string instrument manufacturers across the 5 countries with a published list, as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code. The figure is the sum of those country lists, not a census of every company worldwide.
What is the largest company on this list?
Music & Arts, headquartered in Frederick, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most string instrument manufacturers?
The United States leads with 560 companies, followed by the United Kingdom (94) and Germany (88). Every country with a published string instrument manufacturers list is linked on this page.
Which city has the most string instrument manufacturers?
London leads with 16 headquartered companies, followed by Chicago (12) and Los Angeles (9).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 3,383 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 825 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. The country lists behind this page were pulled from the company graph on September 18, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.