School of Music and Drama | Department of String Instrument Construction

Anadolu University State Conservatory, Department of Instrument Making and Repair, started to give education in 2000. The department, which gave its first graduates in the 2004-2005 academic year, provides four-year undergraduate education. Initially opened with the " Department of String Instrument Making and Repair" programme, the department has been renewed as "Instrument Making and Repair" as of the 2022-2023 academic year with a significant branch approach covering a broader perspective of instrument making and design practices. The curriculum for 2023-2024 has been rearranged by today's technological standards to provide a contemporary education in a unique model. Instead of a standardised understanding of instrument making based solely on wood technology, a modern syllabus suitable for 21st-century production practices, where conceptual and scientific instrument design and construction studies in an interdisciplinary perspective can be carried out, is among the main goals of the department. In addition to wood technologies, a modern department with a rich infrastructure where different materials, electronic and digital productions can be made is focused. The studies in the department are continuously developed with current technological developments and research in an innovative perspective with world-class technical materials and equipment facilities. Our department, which continues its studies with both a traditional and innovative education approach, continues its workshops with a strategy focused on conventional instruments, old music period instruments, Turkish music instruments, experimental instruments and artistic instrument designs. Our department, which adopts an interdisciplinary mission with its educational approach in this perspective, continues to add current practices and innovations to its education programme, aiming at the vision of raising versatile and highly aware luthier candidates who can keep up with age and realising parallel productions.