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The violin: its famous makers and their imitators. : With several wood engravings from photographs of the works of Stradiuarius, Guarnerius, Amati, and others, 1880
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1FRENCH MAKERS.
3GROSSET, Paul. Pupil of Claude Pierray.
4GUERSAN, Louis, 1766. Made many excellent instruments.
5 Ludovicus Guersan propè Comœdiam Gallicam,
6 Lutetiæ, Anno 1766.
7LAGETTO, Paris, 17th century. Chiefly of the Amati pattern.
8LAMBERT, Nancy, 18th century.
9LECLER, Paris.
10LOUIS, Geneva. Copied Stradiuarius, but indifferently.
11LOUVET.
12LUPOT, François, Stuttgart. The father of Nicholas, the famous maker. François removed with his son to Orléans in the year 1785, where they obtained good patronage.
13LUPOT, Nicholas, son of François, born at Stuttgart in 1758, removed with his father to Orléans in 1785, where he remained nine years. He established himself in Paris in 1794, his fame having 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. He 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
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