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The fiddle fancier's guide; a manual of information regarding violins, violas, basses and bows of classical and modern times, together with biographical notices and portraits of the most famous performers of these instruments, 1892
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1He was a pupil of Nicolas Ainë and Breton, and began to learn his business when quite a child. When he was fifteen years old he went to Nancy, where he worked for the trade in co-operation with a few others. In 1827, he began in Nancy on his own account, and continued there until 1853, when he went to Paris, where he remained until his death in 1880. His workmanship was of a good character. Varnish of a common red on orange type. Tone of the twangy, nasal kind, but instruments soundly made, and of a quality to improve in the course of time.
3Jacquot, Pierre Charles. Son of preceeding, and born 1828, in Nancy, where he succeeded to his parent's business after the latter went to Paris. His instruments are of a type similar to his father's.
5Jeandel, Pierre Napoleon. Born at Courcelles sous Vaudmont in 1812, he was taught at Mirecourt by Charlotte. He went to Rouen in 1835, where he worked for the brother of his Mirecourt master. His employer died in 1836, and Jeandel and another took the business. These partners ultimately separated, and Jeandel carried on on his own account from 1848 to 1878. Infirmities then obliged him to relinquish active work on any extended scale. He fell into poor circumstances, and the sudden death of his daughter, in whose place he stayed, withdrew his only shelter, and he was admitted to the hospital at Rouen, where he died in 1879, some five months after admission. He made very good violins, and received prize medals from three different exhibition juries. His work is of a type similar to that of the previous maker.
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