F.N. VOIRIN octagonal cello bow, silver, 73.1g, Salchow certificate | Metzler ViolinsAfter his initial training and early work in Mirecourt, Franois Nicolas Voirin moved to Paris in 1855 to join his cousin Jean Baptiste Vuillaume. His work in the Vuillaume workshop gave him access to distinguished bow makers of the Peccatte school, but Voirin was inspired largely by the work of Pierre Simon and of Vuillaume himself. Most of the firm's "picture" bows of this period, which feature an eye with a tiny lens microfilm of Vuillaume, are by