Jan van Eesbroeck

Lutemaker. M. C. Chevalier de Brabure states he was the son of Josse van Eesbroeck, of Maria Kerck, Mention of these early makers of Lutes in Belgium serves to enlighten us as to the condition of music and musical instrument manufacture in that country at an early date. Historians often refer to the Chambers of Rhetoric. In the pamphlet of the Chevalier de Brabure we have many interesting particulars relative to the connexion of music with the guild of St. Luke at Antwerp. He speaks of the makers of Clavichords seeking for admission into the Guild in 1557, and adds that it was natural these makers should desire to belong to a corporation so great and honorable as that of St. Luke, which since 1480 had its Chambers of Rhetoric "dite de Violiren, de Violier"