- +36 30 415 7271
- Budapest, 1061, Paulay Ede utca 58.
- dariushangszer@gmail.com
- Opening hours: Mon-Fri 10:00-17:00 Sat 10:00-13:00
Darius Music Workshop
Over the years, our workshop has had the privilege of restoring and repairing numerous world-renowned master instruments, including violins and cellos made by Stradivari, A. & R. Gagliano, P. Guarneri (Venice), J. B. Ceruti, D. Montagnana, L. Panormo, A. Bellosio, Michel Deconet, Ph. S. Bernardel, and Sámuel Nemessányi. In addition, we have worked on instruments by outstanding Hungarian makers such as János Tóth, Maximilian Frirsz, Béla Szepessy, and Mihály Reményi. Alongside these notable master instruments, many student instruments have also passed through our workshop, all of which were treated with the same level of care, precision, and professional expertise.
Throughout our work, numerous master bows of exceptional quality have been entrusted to us for repair and restoration, created by renowned makers such as Sartory, E. Ouchard, A. Lamy, A. Vigneron, F. Peccatte, August Edwin Prager, Adolf Thoma, as well as several generations of the Pfretzschner family (H. R. Pfretzschner, Wilhelm August Pfretzschner). Further works included bows by E. R. K. Neudorfer, Grandini, Heinz Dölling, Otto Dürrschmidt, E. Lothar Herrmann, Gustav Adolf Prager, Günter Paulus, and Ernst W. Zöphel. In the professional restoration of these exceptional pieces, our primary goal is always the preservation of the bow’s original character and its inherent value.
In every case, instrument repair and restoration are guided by the preservation of the instrument’s original value. Our reference works present the restoration of historically significant violins, where the aim of each intervention was not transformation, but respect for the original condition, the restoration of sound, and the long-term preservation of the instrument. The examples below provide insight into the careful, well-documented workshop practice that we apply to every instrument entrusted to us.
