The Cerveny wind instrument factory was founded in 1842. Since the 19th century it has been the world's largest facility specializing in Rotary valve instruments. These fine musical instruments are manufactured in the cities of Kraslice and Hradec Kralove in the Czech Republic. Musical instrument making became a tradition in both cities hundreds of years ago. Kraslice can be considered a real cradle of musical instrument production because stringed instruments were produced there first at the beginning of the 17th century.