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Rheims School

Nicolas Gosset

Rheims, worked 1752–1780

Worked circa. 1752-1780 Rheims France. Mirecourt style; Stradivari model. — John Dilworth

Worked Rheims

Biographies

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John Dilworth+

GOSSET, Nicolas Worked circa. 1752-1780 Rheims France. Mirecourt style; Stradivari model.

Cecie Stainer+

A maker at Rheims, who, in 1769. Proposed to alter the frets on the various kinds of viols and guitars in such a way as to produce, instead of equal semitones, the major or minor semitone which was required.

Willibald Leo Lütgendorff+

Er machte allerlei Erfindungen an Instrumenten, doch ist nicht sicher, dass
er selbst Geigen oder Guitarren gemacht hat. Im Jahre 1769 legte er der Academie
der Wissenschaften eine seiner Erfindungen, die das Greifen der halben Töne
erleichtern sollte, vor.

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