Welcome to Brightwood Projects
We offer custom string instrument building, museum-grade restorative conservation and repairs.
We specialize in lute-family instruments, with a focus on instruments common across the cultures of West Asia and the Mediterranean.
Our mission is to help communities and families preserve their musical heritage through instrument restoration. We also build new instruments to help younger generations and professionals continue their traditions.
Jesse Kenas Collins
Jesse Kenas Collins is a luthier based in Worcester. He has over a decade of carpentry and museum collections experience. Jesse started his studies with luthier Walter Stanul at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. Since 2022, Jesse has been apprenticed to master luthier Chris Pantazelos of Spartan Instruments.
Some of the instruments we work on include:
Oud
Lute
Bouzouki, tzoura, and baglama
Kanun/Qanun
Kemenche
Saz
