Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Agents Facet
3. People (hierarchy name)
4. people (agents)
5. [people by occupation]
6. [people in crafts and trades]
7. [people in crafts and trades by product]

Additional parents:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Agents Facet
3. People
4. people
5. people by activity
6. makers

Narrower term/s

• scientific instrument makers

Anotations

Scope note:

Those who make tools for delicate or precision work. For those who make musical instruments, use "musical instrument makers." For those who specifically make, design, or repair stringed instruments of the lute, harp, viol, and violin families, such as guitars, frame harps, violas da gamba, and violins, see "luthiers."