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Scan 170
Chats on violins, 1905
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1daughter, Madame Alard, in great perturbation, asking her advice as to where best to hide his precious "Messie," and various other treasures:
3"In my last I spoke to you of Alard's violin and my 'Messie,' and of certain valuable articles I have here. I do not know what to do with them. If one survives one can recover the valuables when the hubbub is over; some sous can be buried, but violins cannot be buried.
5"… Where ought I to place all these in case of pillage?" Poor Vuillaume! Happily he solved the problem of concealment, for later he writes: "I have found a safe hiding-place protected from fire, et puis à la grace de Dieu!"
7Vuillaume was a great connoisseur, a skilful repairer and a notable figure amongst dealers.
9Then there was Lupot's pupil, Pierre Sylestre, who was a most delicate worker, and a copyist of Stradivarius, and the Gand family, whose founder, François was another pupil of Lupot's. Gand married Nicholas Lupot's daughter, and carried on the business after Lupot's death. François Gand was a king of repairers, often accomplishing
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