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Touly, Jean

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  1. A dictionary of violin makers (1896)

    Touly, Jean. A maker in Nancy about 1730-47. Label: “Fait par moy Jean Touly, à Nancy, 1747.”

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    2. Touly, Claude. In a five-stringed viol, with the upper and lower plates both arched, and with yellow varnish, was the printed label: "Par Claude Touly à Luneville, 1752."
    4. Touly, Jean. A maker in Nancy about 1730-47. Label: "Fait par moy Jean Touly, à Nancy, 1747."
    6. Tourte, François ("le jeune"), b. 1747, Paris; d. there, April, 1835. Was a younger brother of Xaver Tourte. For eight years worked as a watchmaker, and thus gained sureness and delicacy of touch; he was not educated, and never even learnt to read and to write. He settled at 10, Quai de l'Ecole, and began to make bows; for his first experiments he used the staves of old sugar hogsheads from Brazil, but afterwards always selected fine Pernambuco wood of perfectly straight grain, strong and elastic, without excessive weight. By subjecting this in a state of flexion to a moderate amount of heat for some time, he obtained a permanent and regular bend; to do this without making the exterior brittle is always the great

  2. A dictionary of violin makers (n.d.)

    Touly, Jean. A maker in Nancy about 1730-47. Label: “Fait par moy Jean Touly, à Nancy, 1747.”

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    2. Touly, Claude. In a five-stringed viol, with the upper and lower plates both arched, and with yellow varnish, was the printed label: "Par Claude Touly à Luneville 1752."
    4. Touly, Jean. A maker in Nancy about 1730-47. Label: "Fait par moy Jean Touly, à Nancy, 1747."
    6. Tourte, François ("le jeune"), b. 1747, Paris; d. there, April, 1835. Was a younger brother of Xaver Tourte. For eight years worked as a watchmaker, and thus gained sureness and delicacy of touch; he was not educated, and never even learnt to read and to write. He settled at 10, Quai de l'Ecole, and began to make bows; for his first experiments he used the staves of old sugar hogsheads from Brazil, but afterwards always selected fine Pernambuco wood of perfectly straight grain, strong and elastic, without excessive weight. By subjecting this in a state of flexion to a moderate amount of heat for some time, he obtained a permanent and regular bend; to do this without making the exterior brittle is always the great

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Touly, Jean. A maker in Nancy about 1730-47. Label: “Fait par moy Jean Touly, à Nancy, 1747.” reported1
Places and dates of work
Touly, Jean. A maker in Nancy about 1730-47. Label: “Fait par moy Jean Touly, à Nancy, 1747.” reported1
Places and dates of work
Touly, Jean. A maker in Nancy about 1730-47. Label: “Fait par moy Jean Touly, à Nancy, 1747.” reported1

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3 of the 3 lines here were read from machine text (software that turns a photo of a page into words), not by a person looking at the page image. 1 of them rests on a section heading above a list of names, not on a trade word printed on its own line: “A DICTIONARY OF VIOLIN MAKERS.”.

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  1. Stainer, C. (Cecie), 1867-1937, A dictionary of violin makers (London: Novello, n.d.). archive.org, dictionaryofviol00stai. https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofviol00stai.machine textcited for 1 linesource record

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  2. Stainer, C. (Cecie), 1867-1937, A dictionary of violin makers (London: Novello, n.d.). archive.org, dictionaryofviol1899stai. https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofviol1899stai.machine textcited for 1 linesource record

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  3. Stainer, C. (Cecie), 1867-1937, A dictionary of violin makers (London ; New York: Novello, Ewer, 1896). archive.org, dictionaryofviol00stai_0. https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofviol00stai_0.machine textcited for 1 linesource record

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