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Frederick C. Lyman Jr.

Read Fred Lyman’s memoriam

Retired bass maker Fred Lyman has had articles published by the Guild in the ’70s, ’80s, ’90s, and now the ’00s. He’s a thirty-three-year GAL member and a Convention presenter. And he’s the champion of all Guild Benefit Auction donors, having donated hundreds of items beginning with our first auction in 1984. Fred passed away in 2012

▪ bio current as of 2009

By the same author:
  1. Restoring a Church Bass
  2. Letter to the Editor: C.F. Martin Stories
  3. Letter to the Editor: Sloane Bass Tuners
  4. A Survey of Seventeen Luthiers
  5. A Low Cost Bass, Part 2
  6. A Low Cost Bass
  7. GAL Instrument Plan #29: Low Cost Bass Viol
  8. An Experimental Tenor Violin
  9. Meet the Maker: Frederick C. Lyman, Jr.
  10. Bass String Update
  11. Our Great Spherical Friend Part Five: An Experimental Bass
  12. Improving the Plywood Bass (Our Great Spherical Friend Part Four)
  13. Our Great Spherical Friend Part Three
  14. Our Great Spherical Friend Part Two
  15. Our Great Spherical Friend Part One
  16. Bass String Choices
  17. In Praise of the Plywood Bass
  18. Bass Crate
  19. Violin Society of America
  20. The Accomplishment of Gary Karr
  21. Basic Bass Adjustments
  22. Bass Neck Angle Jig
  23. Meet the Maker: Victor Gardener
  24. Three Tools for Bass Makers
  25. The Piccolo Bass
  26. Design Factors in the String Bass
This entry was posted in author and tagged Lyman Jr.¸ Frederick C. on March 3, 2026 by luthsearch.

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