The Instrument Fair Workshop

The Instrument Fair Workshop opens on April 25, from 6 p.m. till midnight, in Warsaw, as part of the Mazurkas of the 2025 World Festival at Terminalu Kultury Gocław, at the same time as the Concert: On the Dancehouse Trail.

The Instrument Fair Workshop is an important staple on the Festival map and a solid preparation for the 15th Instrument Fair which will take place the day after. Festival participants are interested in the art of instrument making and they often need minor repairs or luthier consultations. Here, everyone can find help and advice.
Constantly searching for the perfect formula, we direct our attention towards the old manufactures. It was there, under the watchful eyes of the craft masters, where whole generations of makers were born who faithfully followed traditions but did not shy away from occasional strokes of genius and discoveries. It was there that up to a dozen of people who loved their crafts worked hand in hand. Some of the manufactures were open to the public, while other hid their priceless secrets behind closed doors.
Come and join us! An opportunity like this does not come often. Walk into the Workshop, bring your instrument for a fix or a consultation, walk among the unknown tools, woodchips, and instruments coming to life before your very eyes. Ask a million questions or none at all, look, listen and see if this adventure may be something right up your alley…

This year’s Workshop guests include:

AKAY SADETTIN (Greek bouzoukia)
BARKAUSKAS SKALMANTAS (kanklės, drums, percussion instruments, basolia)
BIEL MICHAŁ (box cog rattles, cog rattles, sticks, washboards, rattles, szuszczaczs)
CHOJAK BEATA (washboards, flutes, whistles)
CZUPRYN ZYGMUNT (accordions, violin)
DOŁHUSZAU SERGIUSZ (kid bagpipes, double bagpipes, ocarinas)
DZIACZYŃSKI DAMIAN (lutes, violas, vielles, hurdy-gurdys, sukas, citoles)
FARLEY MATTHEW (vielles, viola da gambas)
FICEK GERWAZY PRZEMYSŁAW (reeds, pipes, bagpipes)
HOŁUJ HOŁUJ (tagelharpas, talharpas, jouhikkos)
HRYCIUK REMIK (violins from Czech and German manufactures, trombones, saxhorns)
JANKOWSKI FRYDERYK (bagpipes from Greater Poland, sierszeńkas)
KICIŃSKI TOMASZ (bagpipes from Greater Poland, sierszeńkas)
KORZENIEC GRZEGORZ (ocarinas and other clay instruments, conchs)
KOWALCZE PIOTR I PAWEŁ (viola da gambas, theorbos, violins, violas, guitars)
KRUCZEK MAREK i PANEK JERZY (dulcimers)
KRUCZŃSKA GRAŻYNA (ocarinas)
KUBICKI JAKUB (violins, violas, cellos, double basses, period instruments)
KUBICKI DARIUSZ (bagpipes, shawms)
KURAŚ ZENON I DARIUSZ (fujary, reeds, kavals)
LACH JAKUB (bagpipes, reeds)
MAŚKIEWICZ MIŁOSZ (Polish pedal accordions)
MATŁOK PIOTR (ethnic flutes)
NACZAS ROBERT (lyric guitars and other inventions)
PARZYCH WOJCIECH (accordions, squeezeboxes)
PAWLIK KORNELIA (percussion instruments, ocarinas)
PUMPURS ILMĀRS (dulcimers, zithers)
ROSIK KATARZYNA (pretty little things of all sorts)
SOŁŚNIA MICHAŁ (drums)
STĘPIEŃ BARTOSZ (drums, tapans, sticks)
SZUTKA PIOTR (bagpipes, shawms)
TERRAZAS ARTUROS (sikus, Pan flute)
TEŚLUK MAREK (Pan flute)
TOCZEWSKA KINGA (bells, flutes, xylophones)
VALTERS RIHARDS (kanklės)
WOCHNIAK JAN (drums, dżazs)

The list will be updated.

Come and join us!
Instrument Fair Workshop Curator
Piotr Piszczatowski

Fot. Jan Piszczatowski