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Originally Posted by Steve Swan
Do we have any reasonable guesstimates on the total number of Vuillaume doublebasses produced?
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Vuillaume basses for the most part were built by other workers/makers. I don't know if there is a single bass built BY JB Vuillaume himself. Most of the makers that I have heard of that made basses for him, also made for themselves as well. So, would it be a Vuillaume bass if it had a another label it it but an exact example of one from a maker that built the same exact model for Vuillaume?
George Gemunder, Honore Derazey, Nicolas Francois Vuillaume and possibly Ludwig Neuner made basses for Vuillaume as well as possibly one bass by Jack Lott that to me looks 100% English in its pattern. Georges Mougenot, who took over the shop of NF Vuillaume may have also been involved in bass making for JB as the Mougenot I have is pretty much a Vuillaume in its modelling and F-holes.