Luthier WorkshopMateusz Majkowski

• 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 computer 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.

Stringed instruments made in the workshop by Mateusz Majkowski.

Violin on the ‘Polonia’ model

Antonio Stradivari ‘Polonia’, 1685

2026

Baroque violin

Girolamo Amati II, 1671 — in baroque set-up

2025

Violin on a Stradivari model

Antonio Stradivari ‘Medici’, 1716

2023