As part of a three-day workshop on musical instrument construction, participants were given the opportunity to acquire fundamental knowledge of the design and construction of stringed instruments. The aim of the event was to combine theoretical learning with practical experience by collaboratively building individual electric guitars from spare parts.

The work­shop began with an in­tro­duc­tion to the prin­ciples of elec­tric gui­tar design and con­struc­tion. Vari­ous con­struc­tion meth­ods, ma­ter­i­als, and elec­tron­ic com­pon­ents were presen­ted. Par­ti­cipants were en­cour­aged to con­trib­ute their own ideas and sug­ges­tions and to plan their in­stru­ments ac­cord­ing to their per­son­al pref­er­ences.

The second day of the work­shop fo­cused on the prac­tic­al im­ple­ment­a­tion of the designs. The gui­tar necks and bod­ies were as­sembled and ad­ap­ted to meet in­di­vidu­al re­quire­ments. This was fol­lowed by the in­stall­a­tion of the elec­tron­ic cir­cuits, which were tested to­geth­er. At the end of the day, the in­stru­ments were painted and pre­pared for fi­nal fin­ish­ing.

The third day was ded­ic­ated to fine-tun­ing and sound test­ing. Par­ti­cipants made fi­nal ad­just­ments to their in­stru­ments and eval­u­ated the sound qual­ity and func­tion­al­ity of their com­pleted gui­tars.

The work­shop not only provided tech­nic­al in­sights in­to in­stru­ment mak­ing but also pro­moted cre­ativ­ity, team­work, and prac­tic­al crafts­man­ship. In par­tic­u­lar, the com­bin­a­tion of the­ory and hands-on ex­per­i­ence was highly ap­pre­ci­ated by the par­ti­cipants.

The pro­ject will con­clude with a present­a­tion and demon­stra­tion at ETI on 29 May 2026. Dur­ing this event, the com­pleted in­stru­ments will be show­cased, and the res­ults of the work­shop will be shared with guests and in­ter­ested vis­it­ors.

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