French Violins - The Three Wise Men

French fiddles are among some of the most popular old fiddles today. Among the more than celebrated Gallic luthiers of short letter were J.B. Vuillaume, Nicolas Lupet, and Prince Charles Francois Gand. Let's return a little biographical expression at each of these three Gallic and the techniques they used in their craft.

In Mirecourt in 1798, J.B Vuillame was born. He was associated with Pique and often worked with Francoise Chanot. It had come up to his attending that new fiddles were not as advantageous as old violins. In order to net income off of this public preference, Vuillame made many transcripts of Antonio Stradivari violins. He not only replicated the varnish, but even inside information such as as the label. Often, Vuillame would go around Italian Republic looking for old wood and piece of furniture with which he could construct more than reliable looking violins. Some people today believe that their fiddle is a celebrated "Messiah Strad", but it may well be that it is only one of Vuillame's copies. One can find if a fiddle is a Vuillame if it have more than Gallic features than Italian. One of the most challenging and controversial mysteries to this twenty-four hours is the cryptic violin's existent identity.

Nicolas Lupot was born in 1758 and was called the "French Stradivarius". Lupot established a workshop in City Of Light in 1798. He was appointed fiddle shaper to the King in 1815 and to the Conservatory Delaware City Of Light in 1816. His Gallic fiddles imitated Antonio Stradivari more minutely than anybody else had or ever have done to date. Lupot died in 1824.

In 1802, Prince Charles Francoise Gent was apprenticed to Nicolas Lupot in Paris. His Gallic fiddles are known for their superb and textured varnish. Lupot's usage of beautifully flamed wood in the dorsums of his instruments also contributed to their popularity. Besides making fantastic fiddles for the fiddlers of his day, Lupot himself was considered quite a good fiddler in his ain right as well.