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Home › Forums › Forum Archives › Amateur Harpists › How do I pronounce “luthier”?
I’ve heard it “loo-teer” and “loo-theer” and “loo-thee-ay”.
http://www.bartleby.com/61/wavs/87/L0298700.wav
courtesy of the American Heritage Dictionary
Most serious musicians I know say “string instrument maker”.
I pronounce in “loo-theer” and that is the way I have heard others prounounce the word.
Origin is from lute,