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Table 1 Institutions and Other Bodies in the Violin-Making District of Cremona.
Group of actors Actors
Education • Scuola Internazionale di Liuteria and Liceo Musicale in the IIS (Istituto di Istruzione Superiore)
Training A. Stradivari
Research • Workshops (Museo del Violino)
• Univ. of Pavia-Faculty of Musicology in Cremona
• Univ. Politecnico Milano- Master’s in Acoustic Engineering
• Conservatorio Statale di Cremona/Istituto “Claudio Monteverdi” and Monteverdi Study Centre
• Accademia W. Stauffer
• Academia Cremonensis
Public • Municipality of Cremona – UNESCO office; InfoPoint for Tourism
Institutions • Region of Lombardy
• Province of Cremona
• Cremona Chamber of Commerce with Cr.Forma
Foundations • Fondazione Stradivari
• Fondazione Teatro Amilcare Ponchielli
• Fondazione Cariplo
• Fondazione Lucchi
Theatres • Teatro Ponchielli
• Teatro Monteverdi
Museums • Museo del Violino
• Museo Ala Ponzone
Diocese of Cremona • Diocese of Cremona
Fair • Ente Fiere Cremona spa
Organisations • Consorzio Liutai “A. Stradivari”
and associations • Confederazione Nazionale dell’Artigianato e della Piccola e Media Impresa (CNA)
• Associazione Nazionale Liutai Artistici Italiani (ANLAI)
• Associazione Culturale CrArT
• Associazione Costanzo Porta
Others • Private citizens with Town Houses
• Service companies, tourist agencies (e.g., Target Turismo)
• Hotels
• Musician instrument shops
• Other shops and services functional for the violin making district

festivals, exhibitions and national and international are made up of bodies in the tertiary and quaternary
competitions, such as the ANLAI (Associazione Na- sectors and have been grouped here by category (Ta-
zionale Liuteria Artistica Italiana) competition in ble 1). Together, they give rise to the type of district
which luthiers from Cremona compete against violin stated in the title of this section (Segre & Re, 2020).
makers from the whole of Italy and around the world. Once the training at The School of Violin Making
The violin-making businesses are small, usually made and, subsequently, a superior level of learning at the
up of one or two persons who sometimes have moved university and an advanced course are completed, the
here due to their passion (Guercini & Caccarelli, subjects may remain in Cremona, but generally, they
2020). The groups surrounding the nucleus of luthiers “disperse” elsewhere in Italy or the world.

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