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The violin: its famous makers and their imitators, 1875
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1may, it is certain that the varnish of Pique has not served to benefit these instruments, on the contrary, it has derogated considerably from their value. The tone of Lupot's instruments improves yearly. The quality is round and telling, and free from roughness. He died in Paris in 1824, aged 66, and was succeeded in his business by his son-in-law, François Gand.
3MEDARD, Nicholas, Nancy. One of the early French makers.
5MEDARD, Franciscus, Paris, 1710. Stradiarius pattern, good varnish.
7Franciscus Medari,
8fecit Parisiis 1710.
10MEDARD, Jean, Nancy. Similar to the above.
12MIREMONT, Paris. Exhibited at the Paris Exhibition a Violin with a second sound bar. Experiments of this nature are harmless enough when performed upon modern instruments, but cannot be too strongly deprecated when old and rare works are subjected to such levity. An American, some years since, patented an invention where a second sound bar was made to run from block to block, and for the insertion of this freak many valuable Violins were so wantonly sacrificed that their original blocks were cut down. The results, as might be expected, were anything but satisfactory, and necessitated the removal of the improvement and the substitution of entirely new blocks. The invention of Miremont
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