Skreko & Ulbricht violin, 4/4, Indianapolis 2017[further details about this instrument are forthcoming] About the Maker Theodore F. Skreko (1981 ) was born in Indianopolis, Indiana. The contemporary American instrument maker had his first apprenticeship began at age 14 with Indianapolis luthier Kalon Watkins. Skreko worked for two other violin shops before being accepted into the Violin Making School of America in Salt Lake City, Utah where he spent four years at the school studying under Charles