Best known I think as a home for violin makers.
He is considered to be one of the best 20th century violin makers.
However, it is likely that he would have been a greater violin maker still, than his father.
By the age of 17 he was a trained violin maker.
They had an enormous influence on all other violin makers.
He had become a very skilled violin maker by 1630 when his father died.
Soon after, he sold his bass to a violin maker.
It is an instrument used as a pattern for violin makers.
One of his uncles, long dead, had been a violin maker.
"There were 1,000 violin makers in a city of 6,000," he said.