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Old Violins And Their Makers, 1883
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1made after this time to "durable varnishes" in various sources of information. I do not propose to maintain that my opinion on this point is well founded, I merely offer it as a possible explanation of the excessive rarity of wooden instruments of the violin class dating anterior to the time named. However that may be, French history is almost silent regarding these early musical instrument makers, except in the case of a hurdy-gurdy manufacturer of the name of Henry, who lived in Paris in 1292, and other three makers of copper trumpets and hunting horns, who are referred to as existing in 1297, and severally named "Henry the Scot," "William of Amiens," and "Roger the Englishman."
3In 1566 the name of Tywersus of Nancy appears as a lute and violin maker to the princes of Lorraine. He is said to have taught a Nicolas Renault, who is reported to have assisted Andreas Amati to finish the instruments which the latter made for the chapel of Charles IX. in 1566. Another Jacques Renault is mentioned as having been established at this period in Paris, but nothing further is known either of them or their instruments. There is in the Paris Conservatoire a "cistre" bearing the name of S. B. Renault, without date. Fetis mentions a Saint Paul as a violin maker in Paris about 1640, but he is not known to any other writer. There were a Pierre and an Antoine Saint Paul in Paris from 1741 to 1772, but only their tickets have been found. Coming to 1646, traces of a Pierre Leduc have been discovered in a little pochette bearing that date, and it is described as of good make. One Antoine Despons is supposed to have existed in
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