Paris/Rennes School
Henri Huel
Paris/Rennes, worked 1770–1800
Pupil of the guitar maker Lacote and principally a guitar maker himself. Appointed luthier to the French court. Also made a limited number of violins and violas with yellow-brown varnish. Au Roi des instruments / Huel / Maître Luthier… à Paris — John Dilworth
Biographies
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John Dilworth+
HUEL, Henri Worked circa. 1770-1800 Paris & Rennes France. Pupil of the guitar maker Lacote and principally a guitar maker himself. Appointed luthier to the French court. Also made a limited number of violins and violas with yellow-brown varnish. Au Roi des instruments / Huel / Maître Luthier… à Paris
Cecie Stainer+
A maker in Paris about 1775-90; lived first at rue Saint-Martin (1778), then rue du Grand-Hurleur in 1783. This latter date was in an alto of his, of good workmanship, with yellow-brown varnish. He made at the sign of ” Au Roi des Instruments.”
Willibald Leo Lütgendorff+
Er wohnte an der Ecke der Rue du grand Hurleur und der Rue de St. Martin und hatte das Schild »Au Roi des lnstrumens«. Seine Arbeit war gut, sein Lack von gelbbrauner Farbe.
Ein Alto von ihm wird in Brunis Inventaire erwähnt, nur wird der Name irrig Huet geschrieben. Seine Geschäftskarte lautete:
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