The aim of this work was to identify the risk of exposure to wood dust in workshops of musical instruments, at Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura's Violin Making School, Mexico, since such exposure is associated to allergic and non-allergic diseases, such as dermatitis, conjunctivitis-rhinitis, asthma, extrinsic allergic alveolitis and cancer, among others.The amount of particles equal to or less than 2.5 μm present in the air of three workshops of musical instruments was analyzed.Two gravimetric