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Selecting the wood
Spruce for voice, maple for strength
Mountain spruce with dense, straight grain for the top, flamed maple for the back and ribs. We let the wood mature for up to ten years before we touch it.
Family workshop · Luby u Chebu · since 1978
From wood
From wood
is born sound.
Spruce for the top, flamed maple for the back, wood aged for years. Every violin here is shaped by the hands of a single master — from the selection of the tree to the first sung note.
Workshop KORPUS · body in progress
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Anatomy of the instrument
From wood is born sound
In a single stroke, a shape emerges that has been tuned for centuries. Hover over the points and discover what makes a violin sing.
Craft step by step
How violins are made
From raw timber to an instrument that sings. Six steps that take months and cannot be rushed.
What you can find here
Instruments & services
Custom violins
Concert-grade and student instruments, built to match your playing and physique. Build time 4–8 months.
from 85,$0made to order
About the workshop
Three generations at one bench
The KORPUS workshop is run by the Havlíček family in Luby u Chebu — a region where violins have been made for over three hundred years. Father and son work side by side at the same bench, and every instrument passes through both of their hands.
We do not produce pieces in quantity. Only a few new violins leave the workshop each year — each with its own name, birth certificate, and a sound that cannot be replicated.
A violin is not finished when I varnish it. It is finished when it sings for the first time.— Jan Havlíček, luthier
Get in touch
Let us
Let us
create your instrument
Workshop
Houslařská 12
351 37 Luby u Cheb
351 37 Luby u Cheb
Phone
+420 776 508 777
E-mail
[email protected]
Open
Mon–Fri 9:00–17:00Saturday by appointment, always reachable by phone