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The violin: its famous makers and their imitators, 1875
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1FALAISE. Copied the Amatis and Stradiuarius. The workmanship may be likened to that of Pique. Varnish yellow and thin. Thicknesses well observed. There is no indication of a resort to any maturing process. Wood frequently handsome.
3FENDT, Paris, 1780. A well-known maker among connoisseurs; related to the Fendts who worked in London.
5FLEURY, Benoist, Paris, 1718.
7FOURRIER, Nicholas, Mirecourt.
9GAND, François, Paris. He became the pupil of Nicholas Lupot in the year 1802. During his apprenticeship he proved himself an excellent maker, and was much valued by his famous instructor. He married the daughter of Lupot, and succeeded him in the Rue Croix des Petits Champs in the year 1824. The career of François Gand was one of much activity. As a repairer of the works of the great masters he early obtained a high reputation, and perhaps restored more valuable instruments than any repairer of his time. The care he took and the judgment he exercised in endeavouring to bring together the various broken parts of an imperfect instrument, that the original appearance might be maintained as closely as possible, cannot be too highly praised. He often accomplished seeming impossibilities. Splintered cracks were by his ingenuity closed as though no fibre had been severed, while at other times, pieces were inserted so deftly that the most experienced
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