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Old Violins And Their Makers, 1883
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1exist, and there may possibly be violas, but the violin was scarcely known in his time. All the instruments of this last class in existence at the present day, and claiming to be by this master, are, it is said, without exception, false.
3About the year 1828 M. Jean Baptiste Vuillaume, the most celebrated violin maker of modern days, had the fancy to imitate this maker, and his success was so great that orders flowed in upon him, and numbers of violins, with all the beautiful carving and inlaying for which Duiffoprugcar was famed, left the Paris workshop with the apparent stamp of antiquity upon them, and were eagerly bought by the enthusiastic. These imitations were again imitated in the factories of Mirecourt and of Germany, so that the amateur may be well advised to give good heed to the counsels of scepticism, when a violin represented to be by Duiffoprugcar lays siege to his covetous eyes.
5From what has already been said, it will be seen how very meagre is the amount of information obtainable regarding this distinguished maker. Since the time of the publication of Vuillaume's researches, by M. Fetis, all writers appear to have drawn their materials from the same source, and, as in the case of Kerlino, and, indeed, many names yet to come, to have repeated the same statement without having had any opportunity of making independent investigations. The only exception to this method resulted in nothing more tangible than a copy of a ticket, said to have been taken from an original, and running as follows: Gaspar Duiffoprugcar, à la coste St. André, Lyon.
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