Even today, the only modern device used in the Eastman Guitars workshops are band-saws. Eastman violins were made on workbenches, using chisels, knives, gouges and rasps, not routers and machine tools. Eastmans Guitars success can be in part be accredited to Qian’s determination to produce instruments exclusively using traditional violin making techniques instead of relying on modern technology.
Driven by this realisation, Qian started looking for Western trained violin makers who could make professional grade instruments, and moved from solely being an importer to actually manufacturing his own instruments.īy 1994, Eastman Strings was gaining traction in the market, and was doing well enough to employ a team of full time makers based in Beijing. While China was a well established source for cheap instruments, Qian believed that if his home country were to have a long term future in the musical instrument manufacturing industry, it would have to step up its game and produce high quality instruments which were comparable to those being made in Europe and the US. Qian started Eastman Strings with the hope of providing world class instruments for fellow musicians. At the time, Qian never imagined that, over the course of 25 years, what initially started as an importing business for Chinese made violins, violas and cellos, which he operated out of the back of his car, would grow into a global maker of musical instruments.
After graduating from Boston University School of Music in 1992, the accomplished flutist from Beijing, Qian Ni, founded Eastman Strings.
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