John Alvey Turner ..  1885 to date

  ..  established his first general music shop in the City of London in 1885 and from the early days sold all types of fretted instruments, including his "own make" banjos and zither banjos.

The firm has never maintained its own workshops; all high specification instruments bearing the name of John Alvey Turner having been made for them by Temlett, Windsor, Wilmshurst, Dallas, Cammeyer, J. G. Abbott and from 1945 until his retirement in 1956, Sidney Young.