Musical Instruments

Vadim Custom Made Basses concept is to build handmade instruments that are one of a kind, as unique as the musicians. When performing, a musician communicates his personality, abilities and energy to the listener. My instruments are created to…

It’s now almost 30 years since that first cittern (which I still play and record with) but I still get excited about every instrument that I design and build at Vector Instruments. I consider it a blessing to spend my days in a cloud of…

Wave Ukes – My love affair with the Ukulele started at a very young age! I gradually progressed to a ukulele banjo and eventually the guitar became my main instrument! During my many years as a musician and working in musical instrument sales…

With over 10 000 repairs and over 25 builds of experience at Weston Instruments, I can fix, modify, setup, tune up or build your treasured instrument. You can read my resume in the About section of this website, or read what others have to say on…

Michael Whitney of Whitney Guitars is a luthier and instructor specializing in hand made gypsy jazz guitars and other stringed instruments. From his workshop and guitar building school in the Okanagan, BC Canada, he teaches the art of guitar…

Wild Goose Arts Guitars: My COMMITMENT is to build individual instruments to the highest possible standards using the best materials available and never take any shortcuts. To me, building individual instruments means taking the extra time to make…

Wilkie Stringed Instruments – Wyatt Wade Wilkie Hand-builds around a dozen archtop guitars and mandolins per year in his small workshop on the coast of Vancouver Island where he has lived for several years with his wife, Emily and two children…

William (Bill) Okos of William Okos Laughing Tree Guitars is a luthier in Summerland, BC specializing in handmade musical instruments as well as in complete repairs, restorations and setups on guitars, mandolins, violins, and basses, to name but a…

Windward Flutes started in 2001 as a small company repairing conical bore simple system wooden flutes. Forbes and Yola Christie moved operations to Nova Scotia in 2004, built a new flutemaking workshop and began developing the finely crafted Irish…

A Toronto native born in 1952, Joseph Yanuziello of Yanuziello Stringed Instruments has spent most of his life living and working in the culturally diverse neigbourhoods of Toronto’s west end.  At an early age, inspired by his father’s…