Folk Strings
I make stringed instruments from fact and fancy. Some are
replicas of museum pieces, some are the result of starting from a picture I
particularly liked, some are the product of collaboration with players who have
been unable to find all the right features in a single instrument.
Two arrays of instruments
Lira Korbowa Maly
Bas
Lira da Braccio
Violin
Mazanki
Lira Korbowa
Lira Korbowa Zlobcoki
Vielle
Chodophone Plock
Maly Bas
Hurdy Gurdy
A Vielle (medieval fidel) and a
“proto-violin”
The above
are both violin-sized instruments designed with and built for players of period
music. Both use modern violin mensure to reduce the difficulty of transitioning
from violin.
Both were
built with flat backs and carved, vaulted tops. The “proto-violin is
being used for renaissance period performance.
And then there was the
teapot / hurdy gurdy…
…which I made for the
Polish theater company “Stacja Szamocin” for performances of
children’s fables.
Violins
These are two copies of violins from
the Groblicz family of
The models are from observations of
the originals in the national collection in
