Price: SEK 60 000 (Price € 5640 / Price $ 6280) Instrument: Violin made by Peter Westerlund in Norberg, Sweden Label: Makers label Length of back: 352 millimeters Additional info: Some musicians in Sweden consider Westerlund-violins to sound better than old Italian violins and even Stradivarius. One of them is violinist Christian Svarfvar, who describes his Westerlund violin to be stronger and more projecting and he is convinced that in time it will be superiour to the finest of Stradivarius instruments. Listen to an interview (in Swedish) and hear him play his Westerlund:
