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Old Violins And Their Makers, 1883
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1Luneville, and in 1758 went to Stuttgart, where he was violin maker to the Duke of Wurtemberg for twelve years. In 1770 he removed to Orléans, and afterwards to Paris, where he died in 1804. He had two sons, Nicolas, born in Stuttgart in 1758, and François, born in Orléans in 1774. This latter became famous for the manufacture of violin bows. Nicolas was the great artist of his family, and the compiler of the work which was published by the Abbé Sibire under the title of "La Chelonomie." Previous to the time of Nicolas Lupot, the violin manufacture of France was, as I have said, of quite a second-rate order, but he set himself so intelligently to his work that he soon exercised a most beneficent influence on the art. He began his apprenticeship at Orléans with his father, and devoted himself with enthusiasm to the study of the old masters, especially Stradivari. He left Orléans for Paris, where he commenced business in 1798, and for twenty-six years he continued his labours there unremittingly, founding that excellent French school which culminated, and, perhaps, may be said to have terminated, with J. B. Vuillaume. It is stated that no violin left his workshop that was not entirely made by himself. He took Stradivari as his model, and his instruments to-day are very highly prized. His varnish is not so successful as the rest of his work, and he appears to have experimented a good deal in this direction, some of his violins being covered with different varnishes. It is generally pretty thick, and, on the majority, he seems to have used the harder and drier resins, as in many cases it has the appearance of having powdered, and become scurfy and cracked. Some con-
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