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The violin: its famous makers and their imitators, 1909
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1having reached that city some time before. The attention which he soon received from the musical world of Paris proved to him that his removal was advantageous.
3Nicolas Lupot, Luthier, rue de Grammont; à Paris, l'an 1803.
5Nicolas Lupot, Luthier, rue Croix des-petits-champs, à Paris, l'an 1817.
7He had not long been in Paris before he was honoured with the patronage of the Conservatoire of Music, an honour which is attended with many benefits, the chief of which is the making of a Violin annually, to be awarded as a prize to the most successful student among the Violinists. By this arrangement the maker has an opportunity of exercising to the best advantage all the skill of which he is capable, as he is at once aware that the attention of the public is directed to the constructor of the prize, as well as to the receiver, and that an immediate road to popularity is thus opened. Lupot's appointment as maker to the Conservatoire was enjoyed by his successor, François Gand, and was retained by the latter's son, in conjunction with Bernardel. Nicolas Lupot may be justly termed the French Stradivari. He was an artist in every sense of the word. He regarded the works of Stradivari with the utmost veneration. While, however, he laboured unceasingly to imitate him, he scorned all those mischievous maturing processes common to so many French copyists; he never desired that his copy should
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