| [unknown] | Other | Not applicable | [Worldwide] | 4.2 | instrument (as “tenibar”), instrument |
| E. Agniachvili | Person | | | | instrument (as “pandouri”) |
| Luna Anastasia Althoff | Person | Non-binary | Germany | | member of band |
| Samoela Andriamalalaharijaona | Person | Female | Madagascar | | instrument (as “kabosy”) |
| Ny Ony Henintsoa Andriamparany | Person | Male | Madagascar | | instrument (as “kabosy”) |
| Hans Werner Apel | Person | Male | | | instrument (as “chitarrone”), instrument (as “colascione”) |
| G. Assanachvili | Person | | | | instrument (as “pandouri”) |
| Ulises Bella | Person | Male | United States | | instrument (as “requinto jarocho”) |
| A. Beradze | Person | | | | instrument (as “tchongouri”) |
| Sylvain Bergeron | Person | Male | Québec | | instrument (as “theorbo or baroque guitar”) |
| Ron Block | Person | Male | United States | 5 | instrument (as “Victor banjola”) |
| Tony Buck | Person | Male | Berlin | | instrument (as “mono-chord”) |
| Mauricio Buraglia | Person | Male | Colombia | | instrument (as “chitarrone”) |
| Ray Calkins | Person | Male | | | instrument (as “Paul Bunyan harp”) |
| נאור כרמי | Person | Male | Israel | | member of band |
| César Castro | Person | Male | United States | | instrument (as “guitarra de son”) |
| Yoro Cisse | | | | | instrument (as “njurkele”), instrument (as “njurkle”) |
| Evan Cristo | Person | Male | United States | | instrument (as “jarana primera”), instrument (as “jarana segunda”), instrument (as “leona”) |
| Dany Benhaïm | | | | | instrument (as “dulcimer”) |
| Klaus De Rottwinkel | Person | Male | Germany | | instrument |
| Paulo Demarchi | Person | Male | Brazil | | instrument (as “viola de cocho”) |
| Niaz Diasamidze | Person | Male | Georgia | | instrument (as “panduri”) |
| Xavier Díaz-Latorre | Person | Male | Spain | | instrument |
| Adax Dörsam | Person | Male | Germany | | instrument |
| Daryl Dragon | Person | Male | United States | | instrument (as “string bass”) |
| Assaba Dramé | Person | Male | Mali | | instrument |
| Vincent Dumestre | Person | Male | France | | instrument (as “colascione”) |
| Dennis Dunn | Person | Male | United States | | instrument (as “new harmonic canon I”) |
| Philippe Eidel | Person | Male | France | | instrument (as “charengos”) |
| Françoise Enock | Person | Female | France | | instrument (as “colascione”) |
| Fabian Fabro | Person | Male | Honolulu | | instrument (as “Octavina”) |
| Quetzal Flores | Person | Male | | | instrument (as “jarana primera”), instrument (as “jarana tercera”), instrument (as “mosquito”) |
| Terry Fox | Person | Male | Belgium | | instrument (as “piano wires”) |
| Ousmane Gadjaka | Person | Male | Mali | | instrument |
| Charlie Gillingham | Person | Male | United States | | instrument |
| Carlo Andrea Giorgetti | Person | Male | Italy | | instrument (as “chitarrone”) |
| Jonathan Glasier | Person | Male | United States | | instrument (as “new harmonic canon I”) |
| Johannes Gontarski | Person | Male | Germany | | instrument (as “chitarrone”) |
| Martha Gonzalez | Person | Female | United States | | instrument (as “jarana segunda”) |
| Ramón Gutiérrez Hernández | Person | Male | | | instrument (as “guitarra de alambre”), instrument (as “guitarra de son”) |
| Karma Gyaltsen | Person | | | | instrument |
| Borhan Hemmati | Person | Male | Tehran | | teacher |
| David Hidalgo | Person | Male | United States | 5 | instrument (as “jarana”) |
| Thomas Ihlenfeldt | Person | Male | | | instrument (as “Chitarrone”) |
| Albane Imbs | Person | Female | | | instrument (as “tiorbino”), member of band |
| Jesus Jah Jarju | Person | | Gambia | | instrument (as “akonting”) |
| Last Jerónimo | Person | Male | Mexico | | instrument (as “jarana”), instrument (as “leona”) |
| S. Kadychev | Person | | | | instrument (as “tchatkhan”) |
| Edin Karamazov | Person | Male | Bosnia and Herzegovina | | instrument (as “colascione”) |
| Wolfgang Katschner | Person | Male | Germany | | instrument (as “chitarrone”) |
| Brian Kay | Person | Male | United Kingdom | | instrument |
| Elizabeth Kenny | Person | Female | United Kingdom | | instrument (as “chitarrone”) |
| Тимур Кодзоко | Person | Male | Russia | | instrument (as “apapshin”) |
| Bassekou Kouyaté | Person | Male | Mali | | instrument |
| Nitish Kumar | Person | Male | India | | recording |
| Duane Lakin-Thomas | Person | Male | | | instrument (as “harmonic canon II”) |
| k.d. lang | Person | Female | Canada | 3 | instrument (as “ukelin”) |
| Adriaan Lauwers | Person | Male | Belgium | | member of band |
| Tamaz Mamaladze | Person | Male | | | instrument (as “panduri”), member of band (as “Panduri”) |
| Josep María Martí Duran | Person | Male | Spain | | instrument (as “colascione”) |
| Hållbus Totte Mattson | Person | Male | Sweden | | instrument (as “moraoud”) |
| Rob Moose | Person | Male | United States | | instrument |
| Kemo Mustapha | Person | Female | United Kingdom | | instrument (as “qifteli”) |
| Andreas Nachtsheim | Person | Male | | | instrument (as “chitarrone”) |
| R. Nadirachvili | Person | | | | instrument (as “pandouri”) |
| Tuomas Norvio | Person | Male | Finland | | instrument |
| Daniel Oman | Person | | | | instrument (as “colascione”) |
| Francisco Orozco | Person | Male | | | instrument (as “colasciontini”) |
| Giuseppe Panzeca | Person | Male | Italy | | member of band |
| Harry Partch | Person | Male | United States | | instrument (as “harmonic canon I”), instrument (as “harmonic canon II”) |
| Songsak Pathomsin | Person | | Thailand | | instrument (as “hai soon”) |
| Ole Peinow | Person | Male | Denmark | | instrument |
| Luca Pianca | Person | Male | Switzerland | | instrument (as “ceterone”) |
| Fernando Plácido Pachero | Person | Male | | | instrument (as “requinto”) |
| František Pok | Person | Male | | | instrument (as “mandore”) |
| Δημήτρης Ψώνης | Person | Male | Greece | | instrument (as “morisca”) |
| Giancarlo Rado | Person | Male | | | instrument (as “chitarrone”) |
| Dieudonné Randriamanantena | Person | Male | Madagascar | | instrument (as “kabosy”) |
| Victor Randrianasolomalala | Person | Male | Madagascar | | instrument (as “kabosy”) |
| Joselo Rangel | Person | Male | Mexico | | instrument (as “Jarana”) |
| Solomon Ratianarinaivo | Person | Male | Madagascar | | instrument (as “kabosy”) |
| Vlasta Redl | Person | Male | Czechia | | instrument |
| Hans Reffert | Person | Male | Germany | 4 | instrument |
| Ulisses Rocha | Person | Male | Brazil | 5 | instrument (as “requinto jarocho”) |
| La Rondalla de Utebo | Group | | Spain | | instrument |
| Ronez | Person | Male | China | | instrument (as “amplified qin qin”) |
| Tapas Roy | Person | Male | India | | instrument (as “plucks”), instrument |
| G. Sainakhov | Person | | | | instrument (as “sangkoultan”) |
| Lee Santana | Person | Male | United States | | instrument (as “chitarrone”) |
| Lynda Sayce | Person | Female | United Kingdom | | instrument (as “chitarrone”) |
| Karl Scheit | Person | Male | Austria | | instrument |
| Eric Silver | Person | Male | United States | | instrument |
| Pedro Soares | Person | Male | Portugal | | instrument (as “kotamo”) |
| Suriphon Saengsai | Person | | Thailand | | instrument (as “hai soon”) |
| Foday Musa Suso | Person | Male | United States | | instrument |
| Joby Talbot | Person | Male | United Kingdom | | instrument |
| Jean-Luc Tamby | Person | Male | | | instrument (as “colascione”) |
| Sonam Tashi | Person | | | | instrument |
| Аслан Ташу | Person | Male | Russia | | instrument (as “apapshin”) |
| L. Tebetov | Person | | | | instrument (as “nars-ioukh”) |