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Critical & Documentary Dictionary of Violin Makers Old and Modern, 1928
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11906 to 1923. His work possesses great finish and is esteemed. He is established at 10, rue de l’Égalité.
3PIERRAY (Claude) — Beginning of the xviiiith century. This maker followed the N. Amati model. His varnish is orange coloured and his instruments a little Italian in character. He is one of the first among the master makers of the xviiiith century. No 138. Another label states that he has lived in the rue d’Argenteuil. Yet another is as follows : Claude Pierray, proche la Comédie, à Paris 172..
5PILLEMENT — Mirecourt 1780. Ordinary make. Branded. Yellow varnish. Flat model.
7PINEAU (Joseph) — Paris. Born at Niort in 1881. Pupil of Gustave Bernardel and A. Tolbecque with whom he collaborated in the re-constitution of the ancestors of the violin. Was elected « Ouvrier d’art » in Paris in 1902. His instruments after the Lupot model are branded inside.
9PIQUE (François-Louis) — Paris circa 1758-1820. Born at Boret (Vosges). Pupil of Saunier. This maker was a contemporary of Lupot, with whom he collaborated in the manufacture of some instruments which are somewhat scarce. We reproduce below a letter sent by Pique to Lupot on the 14th April, 1792, cited by M. Constant Pierre in his work : « Les Facteurs d’Instruments de Musique » (Musical Instrument Makers). Among his instruments, some are occasionally found to be of poor workmanship and varnish, but in general, the production of this master is of the very first order and his best instruments rank among the finest of the French School. His carefully chosen woods, his red tinted varnish, the composition of which is of exceptional quality, and the proportions observed in the thicknesses, have caused his instruments to be much sought after for their beauty and their full, round and clear tone. Pique lived in succession in the rue Coquillière, at the corner of the rue du Bouloy, rue Plâtrière and rue de Grenelle-Saint-Honoré. Stradivarius model, slightly larger. This master seems to have concerned himself exclusively in the making
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