master string maker
Jan Slawinski
custom strings for fine string instruments, early violas, viols and violas d’amore
Contact
- Address
- Košařiska 125
739 81 Milíkov u Jablunkova
Show on map ↗ - Opening hours
- by appointment (please call)
- Phone
- +420 558 362 924
- Mobile
- +420 723 763 104
- lanostra@seznam.cz
- Website
- www.lanostra.cz ↗
About
Jan Slawinski was born in Karviná in 1948, the elder son of violin and string maker Leopold Slawinski. In 1969 he graduated in violin from the Ostrava Conservatory under Prof. Josef Sochor; from 1971 to 1977 he played in orchestras in Macedonia and Egypt, and then until 1990 he taught the violin at the music school in Karviná.
From 1983 he learned from his father the making of Lanostra custom strings – a technique Leopold Slawinski had developed since 1951, combining the mellow tone of old gut strings with the qualities of modern metal and nylon strings. He has worked independently since 1988 and that year was admitted to the Circle of Czech Master Violinmakers as a string maker. Since 2000 he has had his own Lanostra workshop in Košařiska near Milíkov in the Beskydy mountains.
He makes custom strings by hand for fine violins, violas and cellos – also for smaller sizes from 1/8 to 7/8 – and for early violas, violas da gamba and violas d’amore. Lanostra strings are played by musicians in Europe, the USA, Japan, Australia and elsewhere.