About

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One of the largest workshops in the country!

We are a Midwest shop established in 1992,

born from the vision and design of

Luthier Anton Krutz. He and his team

of skilled craftsmen build a series of violins,

violas, cellos, basses, 5-Strings, mandolins,

and guitars created for

students through professionals.

Every KRUTZ instrument brings together

the full ensemble of components:

wood, varnish, strings and most importantly,

expertise. It's the synergy of these

components that gives every

KRUTZ string instrument a voice.

Creating the Voice of Strings has been achieved by Luthier Anton Krutz and his craftsmen after
decades of hand crafting instruments in the Midwest for some of the finest string players in the world. KRUTZ is now the only shop in the world creating violins, violas, cellos and basses on a professional level with this richly imbued voice ... the Voice of Strings... existing within each instrument.

Anton began as a young artist, developing his violin making skills. He then pursued the bounds of the instruments' acoustics in an avant-garde fashion, relentlessly enhancing every nuance of the process. The culmination of richness, power and versatile expression in his instruments' voice began to fill concert halls. As his reputation grew so did his desire to provide this voice to all levels of string players, which has led to the full line of KRUTZ instruments for students as well as professional players.

KRUTZ recognizes that a player is a co-creator, choosing to use a string instrument to express the essence of the soul. KRUTZ instruments' voice empowers that self expression.

Played by professional musicians in orchestras around the world!