Marcel LAPIERRE viola bow, silver & ivory frog, 1958, 69.5 g. | Metzler ViolinsBow maker (1907 1979) Bowmaker Marcel Lapierre cast his net widely among the many Mirecourt workshops active in the twentieth century. He trained with Jrme Thibouville Lamy from 1921 to 1923 and began working for Franois Lotte in 1931. After five years, he moved to the workshop of Charles Louis Bazin and later worked for Morizot frres. In 1946 mile Auguste Ouchard hired him to rough out some sticks, and following Ouchard's departure for New York in