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Wood+Strings Instrument Making Courses

Ukulele making course Adelaide
Violin Making Course Adelaide
Guitar Making Course

Build Your Own Instrument

Build your own instrument with expert guidance in

a friendly, creative environment.

Guitar

Make your own, personal acoustic or solid body guitar.

Strings

Build a violin, viola or cello using traditional methods.

Ukulele

Have some fun building a Ukulele from scratch or from a kit.

The difficult bit will be deciding which strap to fit, as there are so many to choose from!

Jigs

Make the jigs to take home so you can build additional

instruments yourself.


Learn the processes of instrument making.

Michael Snowden

Michael Snowden

Wood+Strings Director, Michael Snowden, is a highly skilled Artisan Instrument maker. Michael has a Diploma in Violin Making and Repair from the Newark School of Violin Making in the UK, along with a Bachelor of Education. Michael was also a professional violin maker in London from 1993-2004 selling through J.P. Guivier.

Michael first began instrument making classes in Adelaide in 2006 and has educated a range of string instruments making including:

Violin | Viola | Cello | Classical Guitar | Acoustic Guitar | Electric Guitar | Electric Bass | Harp | Hybrid Instruments