Bring your bowed instrument, guitar, or ukulele for a check-up or minor maintenance to the Bouwerskontakt repair shop stand!

Of course, you can also get information about courses, maintenance, and repairs. The instrument-building groups for bowed instruments, guitar building, harpsichord building, and barrel organ building will all be present.

Do you want to learn a new skill yourself? During the festival, Bouwerskontakt is also offering workshops in bending wood with a bending iron and violin making: carving an f-hole.

If you are interested in building a musical instrument, at Bouwerskontakt, you can learn how. Of course, building a complete instrument by hand takes time. During the workshops at the Ambacht in Beeld Festival, you can learn to make a part and get acquainted with some of the skills and techniques.

Bouwerskontakt is part of Huismuziek, an association for music and instrument building, with the aim of exchanging, making available, expanding, and spreading knowledge and experience about instrument making. Members range from hobbyists to professional builders and make both historical and modern instruments, such as guitars, violins, harpsichords, organs, barrel organs, and recorders. Most activities take place at Houtclub-Ede.