"Chanot model" Violin mid-19th century French François Chanot learned to build violins in his father's workshop in Mirecourt, France. After serving a stint in the French navy, he returned to his father's shop and began experimenting with making violins according to the latest acoustical theories. He moved to Paris around 1818, right as he introduced a cornerless model violin. His model also had a scroll that was bent back, away from the fingerboard, and oblong soundholes. This unsigned violin was built according to Chanot's design.Chanot-type cornerless model, one-piece spruce belly of wide, irregular grain with oblong soundholes edged with black and white stripes (one white stripe missing); one-piece quarter-cut maple back with figure slanting left to right, figured maple ribs, brittle yellow varnish; purfling maybe ebony and synthetic; ebonized hardwood edging; figured maple neck; pegbox and reversed scroll; old boxwood pegs, stained pear fingerboard, top and back not overhanging; st