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Pierre Gerber was born in Lausanne in 1912. He was apprenticed first to Richard Meinel and then to Millant-Droux in Paris. He opened his own studio in 1934 and was soon named ‘Luthier du Conservatoire et de l’institut de Ribaupierre’.
He was one of the founding members of the Entente Internationale des Maîtres Luthier et Archetiers. In 2017, he died at the ripe old age of 95.
