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Fortunate enough to be able to be in Paris for 3 days coming up this week. Must do the family stuff, but dad will get one afternoon to do what he wants. So, I wondered what luthiery related spots anyone could suggest??Many thx
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Cité de la musique. Some very serious instruments in there. One of the worlds greatest collections.

+1 - cite de la musique is absolutely worth the trip !!

Yes, that's the best place if you want to see nice instruments.
Inside Paris, the only place where you will find guitars everywhere is in Pigalle, but it's just a street full of shops (rue de douai), not really interesting in terms of lutherie.
You can find luthiers in the rue de Rome (8e arrondissement), some guitar makers, some quatuor luthiers too.

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Paris for 3 days and you want to go to see something related to your hobby?
Sheesh!!
Romance is dead....

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The name catgut is confusing. There are two explanations for the mix up.

Catgut is an abbreviation of the word cattle gut. Gut strings are made from sheep or goat intestines, in the past even from horse, mule or donkey intestines.

Otherwise it could be from the word kitgut or kitstring. Kit meant fiddle, not kitten.

I googled luthier Paris when i was going 3 years ago. Didn't get the chance to visit but here is the link.

https://www.google.ca/search?q=luthier+ ... 2&ie=UTF-8

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Greg
http://garibaldiinstruments.com/

i´d check out some gypsy jazz... la chop des puces, aux petits joeurs, atelier charonne...

if you´re into classicals, you can try reaching dominique field but i guess it should be difficult : http://www.guitarepassion.com/index.php/Dominique_Field

bon voyage!

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Hi, I agree, Cité de la musique and his museum is a must see. You could also go to the library, not the shop but the "documentation center" where you could find a lot of plans and books (this library is hard to find, ask for it).
Pigalle coud be a walk but nothing very exciting, well for lutherie at least.

La galerie Véro-Dodat is a very nice street with a great shop for vintage instruments :
http://dungparis.pagesperso-orange.fr/P ... dodat.html

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