Bow & Bridge Violin and bow makers, as the old books printed them

Scan 37

Essai de répertoire des artistes lorrains: les luthiers, 1903

23 lines. Read by computer on 29 September 2026. No printed page number was found. See the scan on archive.org.

A town on its own line is one of the directory's headings. That is where the town on a maker's page comes from.

1Cremona
2AVGVSTINUS CHAPPVY
3FECIT PARISIIS ANNO 1760
5AVGVSTINUS OLINU PARISIIS NVNC MIRCVRTIO
6FECIT ANNO 1773
8BRETON BREVETÉ
9DE S. A. R. ME.
11J. F. BRETON; citbarae Fabricator. facit, vendit & reconciat instrumenta musica omnis generis Parisiis, anno 1740
13FRANÇOIS BRETON
14JOSEPH-FRANÇOIS BRETON
16SIGNATURE DE CLAUDE-FRANÇOIS 1er VUILLAUME
18PILLEMENT père
19à MIRECOURT, fecit
20anno 1785.
22SIGNATURES, ADRESSES, ETC.

The computer misreads some letters and numbers. Where a name matters to you, read the scan.