THE VIOLIN WORKSHOP – Kovačica

THE VIOLIN WORKSHOP – Kovačica

It takes about 200 hours of patient work to make a single violin. The violin maker, Jan Nemček, had more patience for the construction of his first violin because he made it for himself. He is a second generation in the family having the so called ᾿Stradivarius ᾽ skills, because his uncle Djuro made violins before, and Jan continued his work. As he was a pedagogue at school in Kovačica, Jan asked his uncle to make him a violin in 1979, in order to have a good instrument to work at school. His uncle did not have enough time to fulfill Jan᾿s wish, so Jan asked for some wood and chisel to make his first violin with his uncle ᾽s instructions, and he managed it within a month time. Along with educational business at school he was improving the violin construction, and immediately after that he opted to leave the job and continued to work in the violin construction industry. He is not the last craftsman representative of this family. Jan established the school in the Slovakian town of Zvolen and educated his first four generations. Afterwards, his son Jan Nemček junior continued to work at school. He made the smallest violin for his granddaughter Martina when she was only a year old, and today she is helping her grandfather with the design. Since her childhood she has been practicing the craft and improving in playing the violin.

Photos: archives of Tourism organisation of Kovačica municipality

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