violin maker
Šárka Hušková Pilařová
Contact
- Address
- Atelier houslařů Pilařů
Čechova 1650/22
500 02 Hradec Králové
Show on map ↗ - Phone
- +420 495 532 631
- Mobile
- +420 604 838 867
- pilarova.hk@seznam.cz
About
Šárka Hušková Pilařová (b. 1980) is the daughter of master Tomáš Pilař and represents the fourth generation of the Hradec Králové branch of the Pilař violin making family, whose workshop was founded in 1924 by Karel Pilař.
She knew from childhood that she would make violins – she went to the family workshop while still at primary school and was given her first small tasks. She learnt the craft in her father's workshop, studied artistic woodcarving with local carvers and travelled to the violin making school in Luby u Chebu only for her exams.
In her career she has built some fifty violins, keeping a record of each instrument, and she also does repairs. "I try to continue the family tradition at least so that I keep up the quality," she says. She works in the atelier alongside her father and her husband, and plays in an orchestra and in a folk band.