Duiffoprugcar (real name, Tieffenbrucker), Gaspar
Duiffoprugcar (real name, Tieffenbrucker), Gaspar
Duiffoprugcar (real name, Tieffenbrucker), Gaspar, German-born French viol maker; b. Tieffenbruck, Bavaria, 1514; d. Lyons, Dec. 16, 1571. He was long reputed to be the first maker of violins, but Vidal, in his Les Instruments a archet, states that all the so-called Duiffoprugcar violins are spurious, having been made by Vuillaume, who in 1827 conceived the idea of making violins after the pattern of a viola da gamba by Duiffoprugcar. Apparently, the latter learned his trade in Italy; the usual spellings of his name show it to be Italianized rather than gallicized. He settled in Lyons in 1553, and was naturalized in 1558.
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