![]() ![]() Gently drive your wrist with your forearm," Zhang explained to the beginners while beating time with her hands.īorn in a farmer family in Queshan, Zhang envisaged a musical dream since childhood, when the only musical instrument in the local primary school was a pedal piano. "Don't hold the strings too tightly with your fingers. The classes take place in a local violin-manufacturing industrial park which provides all the instruments free of cost. ZHENGZHOU, July 9 (Xinhua) - Zhang Tingting, a 32-year-old music teacher in Queshan County, central China's Henan Province, has been imparting violin lessons to children for free on weekends for three years. Quanshan hosts a cluster of subcontract manufacturers for almost all world-renowned violin brands. Our natural handicap is the violin is a Western instrument and for many of us it is an acquired taste.Children are learning to play violins for free at Zhang Tingting's class in a violin-manufacturing industrial park in Queshan County, central China's Henan Province, June 14, 2020. Chinese people are meticulous and good with their hands. With a host of 24 international awards and four gold medals in various competitions, he has emerged as the country's grandmaster of violin making. Upon returning, he took on the role of establishing the trade in China, which has since gone on to produce some of China's best violins and to train its best apprentices. Zheng himself was sent to Italy in 1983 where he studied the craft for five years. "Even though our graduates have extremely good earning prospects the first batch has all gone abroad young people prefer working for big companies." "A violin maker basically has a home business," he says. The same stig-ma has proved a stumbling block in recruiting new students. My childhood dream was to be a virtuoso violin player." "I never wanted to become a violin maker. He took up making the instrument in the early 1980s. "The quality of our violins is getting higher and higher, and we're fast approaching world standards," he says with pride.Ī Shanghai native, Zheng was playing violin with a small performing troupe in Anhui Province during the late 1970s. And the year before, seven of the 20 awards went to Chinese contestants. ![]() Last year, his students won two gold and two silver medals at a prestigious Italian competition for violin making. He is widely credited with training most of China's top talent in the field. China churns out about a million pieces each year in the mass-production sector, which roughly translates into one-third of the global market share making it the largest violin maker in the world in terms of quantity, he says.īut when it comes to making top-of-the-range violins, craftsmanship of the highest order is required. Zheng explains that violin making is divided into two major categories - factory manufactured and hand-crafted. "But nowadays people look at us with respect." "Violins made in China used to be seen in other countries as just toys," says the director of the Violin Craft Research Institute attached to the Central Conservatory of Music and an NPC deputy. The craft of violin making is shrouded in myth and mystique, as can be evidenced in the movie The Red Violin, but Zheng Quan is determined to debunk them. ![]()
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