About me
Rafal Turkowiak was born on 9 Janu
ary 1966 in Golanice near Leszno, Poland. His father, a carpenter, and grandfather, a wheel-wright, had great influence on the boy in the field of carpentry and wood technology.
At the age of 15, he graduated from a primary musical school having successfully completed a 3-year-course in less than half a year in classical guitar. Two years later, inspired by dismantling of an old guitar, he made his first classical instrument with a sound hole and unique soundboard construction with suspended bracing, which was innovative at the time. (see the picture below).
His passion for the guitar encouraged him to play this amazing intruments even more eagerly. In 1983, singing and playing his own guitar among 5000 other contestants, he qualified for the semis of the National Young Talent Show in Poznan, Poland. The jury including Aleksander Maliszewski, a well-known composer and conductor, and Urszula Sipinska, a popular singer at that time, hailed him 'the Polish Paul McCartney'.
Almost the twenty-year-long experience and experiments in guitar making have resulted in a WAVE-type soundboard which turns out to be a perfect solution. This unique construction places the craftsman among the best luthiers. He applies the WAVE structure in his flmenco, classical and acoustic guitars.
He is also a creator of flamenco and classical guitars with first resonance tube in the world inside guitar neck and of acoustic guitars with first in the world bridge with drilled holes.
Rafał Turkowiak is a member of The Guild of American Luthiers (see the photo below).
Making guitars, which has become his life passion, can become a source of enjoyment for musicians thanks to his original instruments.
Rafal Turkowiak is also the creator and owner of the Artystyczna Pracownia Lutnicza Rafal Turkowiak company.
ary 1966 in Golanice near Leszno, Poland. His father, a carpenter, and grandfather, a wheel-wright, had great influence on the boy in the field of carpentry and wood technology.At the age of 15, he graduated from a primary musical school having successfully completed a 3-year-course in less than half a year in classical guitar. Two years later, inspired by dismantling of an old guitar, he made his first classical instrument with a sound hole and unique soundboard construction with suspended bracing, which was innovative at the time. (see the picture below).
His passion for the guitar encouraged him to play this amazing intruments even more eagerly. In 1983, singing and playing his own guitar among 5000 other contestants, he qualified for the semis of the National Young Talent Show in Poznan, Poland. The jury including Aleksander Maliszewski, a well-known composer and conductor, and Urszula Sipinska, a popular singer at that time, hailed him 'the Polish Paul McCartney'.
Almost the twenty-year-long experience and experiments in guitar making have resulted in a WAVE-type soundboard which turns out to be a perfect solution. This unique construction places the craftsman among the best luthiers. He applies the WAVE structure in his flmenco, classical and acoustic guitars.
He is also a creator of flamenco and classical guitars with first resonance tube in the world inside guitar neck and of acoustic guitars with first in the world bridge with drilled holes.
Rafał Turkowiak is a member of The Guild of American Luthiers (see the photo below).
Making guitars, which has become his life passion, can become a source of enjoyment for musicians thanks to his original instruments.
Rafal Turkowiak is also the creator and owner of the Artystyczna Pracownia Lutnicza Rafal Turkowiak company.
