Perpetual search for the Grail, object of all desires and all attention, wood is to the violin maker what the diamond is to the jeweller. The tone of the instrument depends mainly on it. Pascal Cranga traverses the forests in search of these invaluable woods because a significant number of parameters such as the climate, altitude, the aspect of the terrain or even the morphology of the tree play a part in the acoustic qualities of wood. Once cut down and sawed, a long work of patience starts. It takes at least fifteen years of drying before this raw material will be usable by the violin maker. (In France, we say "luthier" for an instrument maker).

Prize winner of the Foundation of France, Pascal Cranga brought about recognition of the specificities of this trade by the National office of Forests and established a precise classification used at the time of the sale of wood. He exports about half of his production.

He also prepares wood for luthiers by pre-cutting wood to the dimensions required by violin makers and by outlining parts for various instruments. He thus has ten thousand violin parts in his warehouse.

Instrument maker himself, Pascal Cranga manufactures and restores hurdy-gurdies, (instrument he plays) about which he could speak forever and whose history seems to hold no secrets from him. He is frequently consulted as an instrument expert.

He exhibits at the Festival of Flandres which takes place once every three years in Bruges (Belgium), at the International Meetings of the Violin Makers, and at Saint Chartier's "meeting of luthiers and master sonneurs" in Indre, central France. In addition, Pascal Cranga teaches in the forestry discipline. He is a very active member of the professional organization Facture Instrumental in Burgundy within which he worked hard to help instrument makers having difficulty getting established, thus making of Clunisois (Cluny area) a hot spot of the Burgundian and French instrument making field.