There are more than a few houses in the US leveraging the Eastern, mass-produced model for acoustic instrument components, and using assembly/setup in the US by

There are more than a few houses in the US leveraging the Eastern, mass-produced model for acoustic instrument components, and using assembly/setup in the US by qualified techs as the value add. Eastman is a big brand doing that with violins, guitars, and other acoustic instruments. See a lot of those as intro models in the folk/bluegrass scene.