The agenda
Wekelijkse lessen trimester 2
Wekelijkse lessen trimester 2
Wekelijkse lessen trimester 2
Register
Besides our summer course weeks and our course weekends, we also have our weekly courses on Wednesday and Friday. You can register for half-days and day when still available.


Dirk Jacob Hamoen
The founder and inspiring associate professor of the NVS (born 1949) studied Musicology in Utrecht, specializing in musical instruments. By working at the Bouwerscontact (Vereninging Huismuziek) and making a violin himself, he decided in 1985 as an autodidact to promote his passion into a serious profession. In 2004, he got the grip of controlling the sound and he started the first summer course of the Dutch Violin Building School, where he can use his didactic skills with great pleasure to this day.

Rob Stemerding
As an enthusiastic amateur set builder & designer and board member of Houtstad IJlst, he is the wood connoisseur par excellence. Highly valued and almost indispensable assistant of DJ, in other words: his right hand. As a violin making teacher, partly still in training, but in the meantime the NVS would no longer know how it would be done without him. In addition to teaching, restoring instruments and hairing bows, he gives the school an increasingly beautiful look by refurbishing and furnishing the rooms.

Margo Konings
Wife of Dirk Jacob.
In 2004 it was her idea to organize the first summer week ever for violin making.
For years she was the mainstay, hostess, cook, mother, as it were, of the steadily growing school.
Now officially employed by the NVS as an administrative source of information and rock in the surf.

Bouw je eigen viool, cello of contrabas
Zelf je eigen viool bouwen? Dat kan echt! Op de Nederlandse Vioolbouwschool in Makkum word je stap voor stap meegenomen in het bouwproces. Je kunt gedurende het hele jaar komen bouwen. De school is drie dagen per week open en we organiseren 10-12 bouwweekenden per jaar. En dan natuurlijk onze zomerweken! Lees meer
krullen, krullen
De opleiding vioolbouw

krullen, krullen
Assistent vioolbouwer worden? Dat kan in Makkum bij de Nederlandse Vioolbouwschool. Gedurende 3 dagen per week kan je in 1 jaar de opleiding afronden. Het kan ook in deeltijd.
Je oude instrument restaureren?
Heeft je oude strijkinstrument een opknapbeurt nodig en ben je een beetje handig? Kom dan het instrument onder leiding van onze docenten restaureren! Lees meer
The pictures on this site were made available by the students of the Dutch Violin Building School. Thank you for that!