The lights are on in the shop where Adam Day and his band of violin-makers ply their craft. But if the lights weren’t on? No worries. They’d still have a job.
The whole technological infrastructure could collapse, the industrial revolution could have never happened, and there would still be a place for luthiers, i.e. craftsmen who build or repair stringed instruments the old-world way: by hand.
“The joke around here is that we work in the kind of place where Napoleon is new news,” says Adam, the founder and owner of Adam Day Violins, indulging in a bit of luthier humor…