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The word luthier is originally French and comes from luth, the French word for "lute".The term was originally used for makers of lutes, but it came to be used in French for makers of most bowed and plucked stringed instruments such as members of the violin family (including violas, cellos, and double basses) and guitars.
Making an instrument of the violin family, also called lutherie, may be done in different ways, many of which have changed very little in nearly 500 years since the first violins were made. Some violins, called "bench-made" instruments, are made by a single individual, either a master maker or an advanced amateur, working alone.
Luthier Didier Nicolas (1757–1833) is most likely the first violin maker to manufacture violins repeatedly in Mirecourt. [5] Born and raised in Mirecourt, he did his apprenticeship here and founded his shop A la Ville de Cremonne. [6] He also founded a workshop, called D. Nicolas Aine, which became one of the most successful in Mirecourt. [7]
Marc Laberte was born into a family of violin makers. His great grandfather set up a workshop in Mirecourt around 1780. On 21 May 1904, he married Marie Adeline Josephine Thérèse Drouin, but she died on 15 December 1909.
Nicolas Lupot (4 December 1758 – 14 August 1824) was one of the most illustrious French luthiers (violin makers) of his time.. Lupot was born in Stuttgart.He was apprenticed to his father and worked in Orléans until 1794.
Lutherie is the making of wooden, stringed, musical instruments, such as guitars, violins, lutes, and mandolins. The similar word Luthiery is used (particularly in the United States) to refer to the making of stringed instruments other than those in the violin family.
Thomas Molineux or Thomas Molyneux (Irish: Tomás Ó Maoileagáin; c. 1700 – 25 January 1757) was an Irish luthier and maker of violins from Dublin. [2] [3] His instruments are some of the oldest surviving Irish violins, one of which is housed as part of a collection in the National Museum of Ireland, Dublin.
Lorenzo Storioni (1744 — 1816) is considered [citation needed] one of the last of the classic Cremonese master violin makers/luthiers of the 18th century.. Born a generation after Stradivarius and Guarnerius, and with no direct link to the great tradition, Lorenzo Storioni revived violin-making in Cremona with his own work and that of his two followers, Giovanni Rota (born 1767) and Giovanni ...