16 String musician stubs

Qolamhossein Bigjekhani, also Qolam-Hossein Bigjeh-Khani, was an Iranian musician and tar player. He was born in Tabriz.

Bo Ya was a Chinese musician. He was a qin player from the Spring and Autumn period or the Warring States period. He was known by his first name of "Boya", although his surname may have been Yu (俞), thus his complete name is sometimes given as Yu Boya (俞伯牙). The Lute Platform in Hanyang, Wuhan, China was where musician Yu Boya is said to have played. He is associated with the guqin pieces Gao Shan "高山" and Liu Shui "流水".

Darvish Khan was a Persian classical musician and a tar player.

Taimane Tauiliili Bobby Gardner is an American ukulele virtuoso and composer.

Guan Pinghu, was a leading player of the guqin (古琴), a Chinese 7-string bridgeless zither. Born in Suzhou, Jiangsu, Guan came from an artistic family, and started to learn the guqin from his father, Guan Nianci. After the death of his father when he was thirteen, Guan continued with his father’s friend Ye Shimeng and Zhang Xiangtao. He also studied with the leading players of three different schools; Yang Zongji (1865–1933), the leading player in Beijing, the Daoist Qin Heming, and the Buddhist monk Wucheng.

Lily Laskine was one of the most prominent harpists of the twentieth century. Born Lily Aimée Laskine to Jewish parents in Paris, she studied at the Conservatoire de Paris with Alphonse Hasselmans and became a frequent performing partner of several distinguished French flautists, including Marcel Moyse and Jean-Pierre Rampal. Laskine also served as professor of harp at the Conservatoire de Paris from 1948 to 1958. She was awarded the Legion of Honour in 1958. She died in Paris.

Christian Lemaitre is a French musician specialising in the folk Music of Brittany, with an emphasis on Breton traditional fiddle music. He learned the instrument in his teens in Paris and later moved to Brittany. He joined Kornog in 1981 and later formed a Breton dance-band. He has also performed for many years with fiddlers Kevin Burke and the late Johnny Cunningham in Celtic Fiddle Festival.

Diomedes Matos is a Puerto Rican musician and master instrument maker who is most famous for building string instruments. He built his first guitar at age 12 and later studied and mastered construction techniques for several traditional stringed instruments including cuatros, requintos, classical guitars, and the Puerto Rican tres. Matos' instruments are in great demand and he has won many awards and honors for his work. In 2006, he was awarded a National Heritage Fellowship by the National Endowment for the Arts, which is the United States government's highest honor in the folk and traditional arts.

Jacky Molard is Breton musician referred to as important in the region. He plays fiddle, guitar and bass. He is or has been a member of Gwerz, Pennou Skoulm, the Jacky Molard Acoustic Quartet, and has also played in various groups with Erik Marchand such as Taraf de Caransebes. He is also a composer and producer. Jacky created the "Innacor" Breton/World music label in 2005 along with Erik Marchand and Bertrand Dupont. He has also worked with musicians outside Brittany such as Foune Diarra.

Bruce C. Molsky is an American fiddler, banjo player, guitarist, and singer. He primarily performs old-time music of the Appalachian region.

Hamid Motebassem is a classical Persian musician and tar and setar player.

Patrick O'Brien was an American guitarist and lutenist born in New York. He was a recording artist, but was best known as a pedagogue in the field of early plucked instruments in America, and an expert in musicians' hand anatomy. He has worked with musicians on many instruments, reworking their technique around repetitive stress injuries and breakdowns of coordination.

Patsy Seddon is a Scottish harpist, violinist and traditional singer in Scots and Gaelic.

Ali-Akbar Shahnazi was an Iranian musician and master of the tar.

Stephen Stubbs is a lutenist and music director and has been a leading figure in the American early music scene for nearly thirty years.

Doctor Coble Walsh, better known as Doc/Dock Walsh, was an American banjoist, and bandleader of The Carolina Tar Heels. He formed that group with Clarence Ashley in 1925, followed by the addition of Gwen Foster. Walsh is known as the "Banjo King of the Carolinas".