Expert violin-makers in Italy spend 3 months making a single instrument — but mass-produced violins from China are flooding the market
Expert violin-makers in Cremona, Italy, sometimes take up to three months to produce a single instrument.Cremona, Italy, is the world capital of violin-making, and is the birthplace of the famous Stradivarius violins that can be worth millions of dollars.
The small market for instruments of the highest quality also forces workshops in Cremona to compete against each other alongside foreign competitors. But business in the capital of violin-making may be under threat, facing competition from Chinese manufacturers that churn out much cheaper instruments in larger quantities. , a French luthier living in Cremona, says that the difference between a Chinese violin and a Cremonese one is that "the Chinese ones are the combination of several hands, whereas the artisan violins made in Cremona have the luthier's personality within them.
In 2019, China made more than 1.5 million of the approximately 2 million violins and stringed instruments exported worldwide. Italy, on the other hand, exported only 6,727.
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