I started making instruments in the 1970's, in particular in Louis Georgel's epinette manufacturing workshop in the Gerardmer region of the Vosges. It was with Gilles Duhaut that I learnt bow making in Mirecourt, before establishing my business in the Rue du Champ des Loups at Remoncourt (between Mirecourt and Vittel). After a fire on the13th of July 2000, I established my current workshop at 4 rue Sainte Cécile in Mirecourt.

My background, rich with personal encounters and diverse projects, has helped me to gain an experience and insight into traditional instruments, their construction techniques and materials, as well as a solid teaching base. In addition to epinettes and psalterions, I also made trompettes marine, bowed vieles, zithers... This experience also led me to work on instruments from the Classical period, particularly the projects of reconstitution with Annie Belis (researcher at the CNRS) and Tinaïg Clodoré... I also make bows for the nyckelharpa and moraharpa and occasionally modern and baroque bows.

I own a collection of traditional instruments - with an emphasis on sympathetic string instruments - which are regularly exhibited. But clearly the most popular instrument created in the workshop remains the nyckelharpa, whose name means 'keyed fiddle'. This is a Scandinavian (Swedish) instrument more often than not with sympathetic strings, and whose warm and deep sound adapts to traditional Nordic melodies as well as contemporary music.