Jacob Eury [SEP] date of death
Jacob Eury
Jacob Eury (born 6 April 1765 in Mirecourt - died 7 October 1848) was a French luthier and bow maker.
He was apprenticed in Mirecourt with his father as a violin maker, and later became an archetier / bow maker.
According to the Paris census, he was noted having been in Paris as of 1792, where he certainly had some association with François Tourte. Throughout his life he moved many times and seems to have struggled financially. His work however never seems lacking. Top experts
faultless before it left his workshop. He never varnished his bows but only rubbed them with pumice powder and oil. The Tourte pattern was followed by Dominique Peccatte, Jacob Eury, Nicolas Maire, François Lupot, Nicolas Maline, Joseph Henry and Jean Pierre Marie Persois.
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"The French bow maker François-Xavier Tourte, more commonly known as François Tourte or Tourte le jeune, is often referred to as 'the inventor of the modern bow,' or 'the Stradivari of the bow.' His