Michel Colichon

COLICHON, Michel Worked circa. 1670-1693 Paris France. Son of Nicolas Colichon, above. Celebrated maker of viols. Eight surviving gambas constitute a highly important body of work from the period. He was evidently informed by the English method of building instruments, constructing the front from several bent staves. Seven-string bass viol preserved in the Musée de la Musique, Paris dated 1683, another dated 1687 in the Sforzesco collection, Milan, and a 1693 example in the Musée d’Art, Geneva. Manuscript label: Michel Collichon / A Paris 1683

Worked in Paris about 1683-93, the former date being on the label of a viol with six strings, with transparent yellow varnish, and the latter date in a bass-viol exhibited in Paris, 1889.

Vidal kannte eine sechssaitige Viola aus dem Jahre 1693 von ihm mit flachem
Boden und gelbem Lack; eine schöne Bassviola von ihm war 1889 in Paris ausgestellt;
auch Taschengeigen mit seinem Namen kommen vor.