Nicolas Louis Gilbert
Metz
GILBERT, Nicolas Louis early 18th century Metz France. Harp signed with his name in the Stuttgart Museum. Vannes cites a quinton dated 1765, and a pardessus de viole converted to a violin with the label: Nicolas-Louis Gilbert / facteur d’instruments à Metz / 1701 — John Dilworth
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John Dilworth+
GILBERT, Nicolas Louis early 18th century Metz France. Harp signed with his name in the Stuttgart Museum. Vannes cites a quinton dated 1765, and a pardessus de viole converted to a violin with the label: Nicolas-Louis Gilbert / facteur d’instruments à Metz / 1701
Cecie Stainer+
A maker in Metz about 1700. In the Paris Exhibition, 1878, a very pretty five-stringed viol—dated ” Metz, 1701 “— of his was shown.
Willibald Leo Lütgendorff+
Ein geschickter Violenmacher, von dem 1878 in Paris eine hübsche fünfsaitige
Viola ausgestellt war.
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