Antwerp · 1645 to 1710
Historical maker
Named in 5 books.
Also recorded as: Borlon, François
What the books printed
A dictionary of violin makers, Stainer, C. (Cecie). London; New York: Novello, Ewer, 1896. Page 11, scan 19.
Borlon, François. A maker in Antwerp about 1680-1710. A bass-viol of his in the Church of St. James, Antwerp, is said to have a beautiful tone.
A dictionary of violin makers, Stainer, C. (Cecie). London: Novello, n.d. Page 11, scan 21. Held as more than one scan.
Borlon, François. A maker in Antwerp about 1680-1710. A bass-viol of his in the Church of St. James, Antwerp, is said to have a beautiful tone.
An encyclopedia of the violin, Alberto Bachmann. 1925. Page 15, scan 37. Held as more than one scan.
BORLON (PORLON), FRANCIS, Antwerp, 1645.
Another scan of this book reads the same line with small differences; this is one of the readings.
The violin, Hart, George. London, Dulau and co. [etc.], 1884. Scan 294.
BORLON, François, Antwerp, Viol maker.
The violin, 1909. Page 233, scan 289.
BORLON, François, Antwerp, Viol-maker.
- Entries from 5 books stand under this name, and somebody judged them different people. That is being looked at again.
Same name
Whether any of these is the same person, the books do not say.
Same town, same time
18 other Antwerp makers have a year in the 1600s. A few of them:
- died 1628 Vries, Dirck de
- 1636 to 1647 Borlon, Peeter
- died 1642 Haghens, Cornelius
- 1642 Haghens, Simon
- 1659 Pelle, Christian
- 1660 to 1679 Van Der Slaghmeulen, Joh