In 1912 Master Stringed Instrument Maker Emile LAURENT (1875 - 1925) founded his instrument making workshop at 6 Rue Jean Jacques Rousseau in Bordeaux. He passed it on to his former employee Amati MANGENOT (1901 - 1965) in 1925, and Mangenot ran the workshop until his death in 1965. His widow kept the business running for the next two years, before in 1967 calling upon the services of Pierre TACONNE (1930 - 1996) who for almost twenty years had been workshop foreman at the Maison VATELOT in Paris. In 1969 Taconné sent his son Patrice (born 1953) to Mirecourt to serve his apprenticeship, placing him at the "APPARUT-HILAIRE" workshops under the guidance of Master Jean EULRY. In 1972 Patrice TACONNE entered the workshop of Master Frédéric BOYER; two years later he rejoined the workshops of his father Pierre. When he himself took over, Patrice TACONNE called upon the services of his former assistant Benoît GUILBAUD, who joined him to become workshop foreman. The Maison has long continued to uphold the quality and traditions of French stringed instrument making.

Benoît Guilbaud

Pierre Taconné

Born on 23 May 1930 in Paris, Pierre TACONNE served as an apprentice stringed instrument maker at the workshops of Master René JACQUEMIN at Mirecourt in the Vosges region between 1946 and 1949. Subsequently where he was soon promoted to workshop foreman and assistant to Etienne VATELOT (who took over from his father in 1959). He worked for the greatest musicians of his day, Maurice GENDRON, David OISTRACH, Isaac STERN, Mstislav ROSTROPOVITCH, etc... In September 1967, he came to Bordeaux to take over the "Amati MANGENOT" workshop, becoming a partner with his son in 1975; he made instruments, assessed them, restored and tuned all stringed quartet instruments and their bows. Pierre TACONNE passed away in 1996.

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