Luthier WorkshopMateusz Majkowski
Kraków · Podgórze
Building, repair and conservation of bowed string instruments
Violin on the ‘Polonia’ model · 2026
Scope of work
Building
The workshop makes contemporary bowed instruments based on historical models, as well as instruments in baroque set-up. Selected models are worked out from technical documentation and tomographic examinations carried out by the workshop.
Repair and conservation
The workshop carries out repairs, conservation and corrections of bowed instruments — among them the reconstruction of damage, cleaning, varnish retouching, and work restoring an instrument’s playing and visual condition.
Set-up and adjustment
Preparing an instrument for playing covers fitting the bridge, sound post, fingerboard and remaining fittings, and adjusting the instrument to its own particular character.
Instrument documentation
The workshop examines instruments by industrial computed tomography, both to produce technical documentation and to assess condition without touching the historical substance of the instrument. The documentation may include digital and physical 3D models, tomographic sections, technical drawings, thickness maps and measurement records.
Polonia Project
The Stradivari
‘Polonia’, 1685
Industrial computed tomography of a violin — Antonio Stradivari, ‘Polonia’ (1685)
‘Polonia’ is the only violin in Poland attributed to Stradivari. The project covers the examination of the instrument on a Nikon M2 LES industrial CT system, a complete set of technical documentation, and a contemporary violin built from that documentation.
See the project 3D scroll model libraryCatalogue
Instruments
Stringed instruments made in the workshop by Mateusz Majkowski.
The workshop
Mateusz Majkowski’s violin-making workshop has operated in Kraków since 2024.
Graduate in artistic violin building from the I. J. Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznań.
He completed the Bronisław Rutkowski Music School, first and second degree, in Kraków, in the violin class.
He works with the Computer Tomography and Radiography Laboratory of the Kielce University of Technology on projects applying industrial computed tomography to the study of historical bowed instruments.
Partners
- Politechnika Świętokrzyska
- CENWIS
- Kielecki Park Technologiczny
Contact
Pracownia Lutnicza Mateusz Majkowskiul. Nazaretańska 12, 30-685
Kraków · Podgórze
- Telephone
- +48 510 870 055
- studio@majkowski.eu
- _mateusz.majkowski_