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28/08/2014

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Cremona in northern Italy is a centre of violin making, but can the old industry survive?

Peter Day visits Cremona in northern Italy to see how a centuries-old centre of violin making can survive in a fast-changing musical world.

Thanks to great craftsmen such as the Amati family and Antonio Stradivari, the city of Cremona in northern Italy has been a global centre of violins for five centuries. Peter Day finds out how tradition, marketing and years of training enable Cremonese instrument makers to survive in a fast changing musical world. 

Producer: Caroline Bayley.

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