POLAND-CULTURE-MUSIC

Polish musician and instrument-maker Mateusz Raszewski works on a kalisz bass at his workshop on May 10, 2018 in the village of Kamiensko, just north of the western Polish city of Poznan. - The far cousin ??of Renaissance and Baroque-era bass viols, the kalisz bass was made by peasants living near the eponymous small central Polish town until the early twentieth century and then all but forgotten. Mateusz Raszewski is reviving the art of designing, building, stringing and playing this unique bass, traditionally carved by hand out of a single block of softwood like poplar or willow. (Photo by Wojtek RADWANSKI / AFP) (Photo credit should read WOJTEK RADWANSKI/AFP via Getty Images)