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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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1became successor to his father. His instruments are well appreciated in France. I have not seen any of them.
3GAND, CHARLES ADOLPHE, Paris. Born 11th December, 1812. Died 24th January, 1866. This maker was a son of C. F. Gand and succeeded to his father's business in 1845, and also to the appointment of maker to the King's musicians and to the conservatoire and later to the Emperor's Chapel. The two first appointments had been continued to the firm since the time of Lupot, to whom they were first granted. C. A. Gand did not make many new instruments. In 1855 he took as partner his brother, Eugene Gand.
5GAND, EUGENE, Paris. Born on 5th June, 1825. Died at Boulogne sur Seine on the 5th February, 1892. This maker—the brother above referred to as associated with C. A. Gand—has played a somewhat important part in the history of this famous house. While he studied violin making under his father and brother he also studied violin playing under the celebrated Baillot at the Conservatoire, and left it only at the death of that great violinist in 1842. On the death of his brother in 1866, the two brothers Bernardel already referred to became his partners and the firm then became Gand and Bernardel Frères. For a number of years the instruments of this firm had ceased to be personal works. Their business extended considerably, and could only be done in that fashion, namely, in employing clever workers to do what their fathers were supposed to have carried out with their own
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