My name is Balazs Prohaszka I am a luthier from Hungary.

I started to work on musical instruments in 1994 when I started to learn in a Hungarian school of lutherie where I got acquainted with building and repairing methods and their theoretical background of the guitar ,violin and lute type musical instruments. After two years I graduated and stayed to work in my teacher's workshop working on all sorts of instruments but mainly on violins.

In 1997 I went to work for a double-bass workshop where I restored several double-basses from the best makers from Europe and built new ones as well which experience is incredibly useful in guitar building too. I set up my own workshop in 2000 in a small Hungarian village surrounded by forests and focused on guitar building. Paralelly I worked for a well-known German bow maker Bernd Etzler.

I built mainly archtop guitars until 2003 when I went to work for Lowden Guitars in Northern Ireland which later became Avalon Guitars. Fortunately here I got experienced in every process of guitar manufacturing and after a while I became responsible for several new designs and custom projects.
I continued to build my own guitars too, with a very distinctive sound, design and building approach.
I could be proud of that I built only one-off, custom models until now but it is not so lucky from marketing point of view and that is why I decided to develop a standard guitar range and try to find my place in the guitar market keeping the unique feel of my guitars and the built quality without compromises.

I have to say many thanks to my wife and my three daughters for their patience and to motivate new ideas and many thanks to my colleagues for their help.

My main influence in guitar building is maybe the nature itself what is mirrored in my ornamentation and exploiting the beauty of the wood what presents itself not only in appearance but in sound too.
I believe that a musical instrument can represent any beauty or harmony only if it is perfectly functional with perfect playability and rich sound.