The Guthman Competition is held every year at Georgia Tech and frequently features instruments and makers that are on this wiki. The idea of the competition is to show off innovations in musical instrument invention.

The Powsolo award started in 2020 and is an award competition for sound sculptures.

“Since the taxonomical work of Erich Moritz von Hornbostel and Curt Sachs in the early twentieth century, organologists have classified musical instruments into four major categories, each distinguished by its primary sound-producing mechanism: idiophones (vibrating body), membranophones (vibrating membrane), chordophones (vibrating strings) and aerophones (vibrating air columns). Beyond these basic divisions, scholars have proposed such logically consistent additions as electrophones (for electronic instruments) and corpophones (for the human body as a source of sound). We propose a seventh category: fictophones, for imaginary musical instruments. Existing as diagrams, drawings or written descriptions, these devices never produce a sound. Yet they are no less a part of musical culture for that. Indeed, fictophones represent an essential if hitherto unrecognized domain of musical thought and activity, and it is in order to catalog these conceptual artifacts that we have established the first institution of its kind: the Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments.” ¹⁾

A music collective based in New York ²⁾

EMI is by far the most comprehensive and important resource related to this wiki. Published by Bart Hopkin, the magazine features different instrument makers and their instruments, theory surrounding them, music they have made and even technical guides on how to build instruments.

From Mud to music is about musical instrument makers who work with ceramics as their primary medium.

Frank Giorgini
Ward Hartenstein
Brain Ransom
Robin Hodgkinson
Geert Jacobs
Radnar Naess
Winnie Owens-Hart
Susan Rawcliffe
Richard and Sandi Schmidt
Aguinaldo da Silva
Sharon Rowell
Dag Sorenson
Stephen Wright