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Hrus Guitars are producing acoustical double top guitars with a unique bracing.
Luthier’s maker Richard Hrus has been dedicatedto an intensive analysis of a guitar construction and guitar production since 2005. However, he has been involved with craft work in wood since 1992.

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Guitar factory NBE Corp. is contemporary Jolana guitars builder. The production is situated in Horovice. It’s a small town half way from Prague to Pilsen. Our production staff consists of highly skilled craftsmans with the long time experiences on luthiery professional field. Prior to all lies the quality of the product. Great sound and amazing craftsmanship side by side. The instruments are being manufactured in modern, up to date operation where the modern technology and traditional methods exist together to get the best of it to ensure the demanded quality level of each instrument leaving the factory. We ship the product to Czech and foreign countries customers with great success and very positive feedback.
Although the production of Jolana guitars was interupted almost for twenty years, the brand was never forgotten. Contemporary Jolana guitars include the original design of bodies and necks and also some of the original components design.

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Josef Lídl Brno is a company with long tradition producing brass instruments.

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The company produces trumpets, flugelhorns, French horns and hunting musical instruments. They provide instrument servicing including surface treatment, and sell brass instrument accessories.
M. Jiráček & sons is a family business dating back to 1992. It was founded by our father, Milan Jiráček (1941–2010), who utilised his more than 30 years of experience in making musical instruments. The craft has since been passed down to the second generation, his sons Vlastimil and Milan Jiráček. We follow in the great tradition of local instrument-making, going back several hundred years. The region of Kraslice-Markneukirchen on the Czech-German border is the European birthplace of brass instruments, which produced most of the founders of current leading manufacturers.

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Petr Matoušek produces handmade acoustic guitars.

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Petr Sedláček produces handmade violins/violas and offers reparation of instruments.

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Bluegrass Instruments is a term in the bluegrass world, because it is the only one to secure all the parts for building a banja with its own production. At the time when Jaroslav started building the banjo, parts for the banjo could not be obtained. Therefore, as an apprentice toolmaker, he had to make them himself. Over time, they managed to break into the American market and parts, together with Vláďa Ptáček, began to supply bananas to all well-known producers. It is more than probable that although your instrument has the logo of another well-known company on its head, whether American or Czech, most metal parts are made by Průcha Bluegrass Instruments.

It doesn't matter who plays the banjo or the Průcha mandolin, the biggest award is the words of recognition of a satisfied customer. Before leaving the workshop, each tool is perfectly adjusted to the customer's requirements. The goal of Průcha Bluegrass Instruments is to make both beginners and excellent musicians satisfied. If you want to buy a good mandolin or a perfect banjo, you will definitely choose. More than thirty years of existence is a guarantee of quality.

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Rácz Violins is a company producing string instruments by Petr and Michal Rácz.
Petr Rácz is a native of Luby, a small town in West Bohemia with its rich tradition of violin making. It was an interest in the construction of musical instruments that brought him after finishing elementary school to the violin school in Luby. Here in 1993 under the leadership of Charles Zadražil and Emil Lupač - master violin makers – Petr Rácz successfully completed and became the best student of a four-year graduate study of Fine Arts and crafts of musical instruments – violin making.
Since 1994, he has been building on its own behalf master instruments and has been cooperating with the studio Akord Kvint. His art of violin making has improved due to the contribution of master violin makers Jan Poetzl, Arpad Sivak, Michael van Berkuma and Edward Schwena. He has participated in violin making competitions in Mittenwald in Germany, Italy Cremona, but also at home in the Czech Republic, for example in Náchod, where he gained another new experience.
The tonal quality of his violins, violas, cellos he consults with professors of the Prague Conservatory and members of the Dvorak Quartet.
His master instruments set out around the world. In the Czech Republic the violinists Anna Skálová, Jan Macečko, Jakub Junek, Margaret Dominikusová and other great young musicians play his instruments.
Since 2008 he has been a member of Artists' Circle of violin makers.
Certifikát - Who is Who Word Society CorporationFor the construction of violins he mostly uses the models of Stradivari, Guarneri del Gesu and in case of a specific request a different model can be built as well.
In 2009 and 2011 he devoted his instruments to the Violin Academy of Vaclav Hudeček for the best student, which is annually announced at the closing Gala concert in Luhačovice. In March 2012 he was admitted to the encyclopedia of personalities Who is Who Word Society Corporation.

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Rastislav Žumár was born in Martin, Slovakia in 1983 and grew up in a musical environment in Prague, Czech Republic. After graduating from the traditional lutherie school of the Czech Republic in 2003 he began to build his first instruments in Florence, Italy under the supervision of the famous luthier John Terry. Manufacturing high-quality instruments he quickly established his reputation and earned himself an entry in the "Encyclopedia of violin makers in Italy" by Gualtiero Nicolini published in 2008.

In 2009 he started his own workshop in Prague and continued to successfully build new instruments inspired by the classic designs of Tuscany, Cremonese and Venetian schools. Over the years more than 40 instruments have passed his hands which today are played by artists in the USA, Italy, Japan, Denmark, Spain, Taiwan, the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

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