Violin Making ancestors did , equipped workshop , supplies, resonant wood or anyone who advised him home . "My father rode with the circus as an acrobat , juggler and clown for Yugoslavia , but then he married in Czechoslovakia and settled in the Eagle Mountains, where my great-grandfather in Sedloňov were turned wooden toys . " Working with wood and was captivated him since childhood talented singer and musician . He studied first at the violin school in Luby near Cheb , then the leading Czech master violin maker : u F. Pavlíčka in Prague ( 4 years ) , M. Cardy in the Big Osek ( 1978-79 ) , Vl. Pilar Hradec Králové ( 1980-1981 ) . "Master Carda taught me the craft , sharpen chisels and basic knack . When I tired pulling a scraper for wood back , showed me the workshop , whether I walk into the forest. And sometimes I even got a slap . In a small apartment, I slept beside him in the marital bed , as in the old days , which had its charm because my late into the night talking about his early days in violin maker Joseph Patocka in Jicin. " Tool , which in Hradec Králové under the leadership of Vladimir Pilar built , was positively assessed houslařskými masters and the fall of 1980 entered between thirty champions of the Czech violin Circle . In 1976 he moved to Náchoda and worked privately under DOS (small repairs and service ) with the consent of MNV in the repair of musical instruments. Soon, however, as an undesirable " freeholder " for permission to come. In order to secure the family, worked as a geodetic helper , driver, chiselled wooden bowls and proposed , were turned and painted wooden puppets. His hussars , water sprites , Madeleine , Krakonošovo , necromancers and the cribs were looking at how the work left to their studios Teachers Cardy and master Pilar began to restore the old and build their own tools . He built violins for Poznan H. Wieniawski competition , he was in a great global competition and third place in the Gold Medal for the best violin work. Poznan success led representatives of Japanese companies Shirikawa Sōgyo from Tokyo to the fact that the master ordered him tools . The purpose of this contract was to that obtained the required material for the Japanese order for their own tools . The Japanese call him a representative of a follower Pilařová school. In the summer of 1982, signed tool for international competition in Cremona. Of the 500 participants took 5 place and his violin were designed by a jury Sacconi a gold medal for violin work. Too bad that the age limit of thirty years already Náchodský luthier about a hundred days exceeded . Master Pilar him before the competition said : "Better to have a tool difficult to build it ," but he believed that his distinctive style lies ahead. "I feel that I have not built a violin entirely of myself ," he said in his Náchod workshop in 1983 ( Opus Musicum 7/1983 ) . Then he gathered international experience abroad by master violin maker in Canada, Switzerland and France. International Violin Making Competition in KráHradec lové ( 1985) earned him a third place in the construction of violins and a bronze medal for outstanding tone . In the national competition in the construction of the violin won 2nd instead of a gold and bronze medal for the best violin work , silver medal for excellent tone out of four honorable mentions . His instrument sounds on all continents. Until 2006, he also worked alternately in her studio in Quesada , Spain , where still go teach violin-making craft .
Musicians , as well as the jury , to appreciate his work minuciézní tools , paint handling and the ability to develop tone .
Violin Making ancestors did , equipped workshop , supplies, resonant wood or anyone who advised him home . "My father rode with the circus as an acrobat , juggler and clown for Yugoslavia , but then he married in Czechoslovakia and settled in the Eagle Mountains, where my great-grandfather in Sedloňov were turned wooden toys . " Working with wood and was captivated him since childhood talented singer and musician . He studied first at the violin ...