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3 unusual facts about Grinda Brothers


Grinda Brothers

Both brothers worked as organ-builders mainly in the County of Nice, then part of the Kingdom of Sardinia.

1791 L'Escarène: Église Saint-Pierre-aux-Liens (St. Peter in Chains’ Church) - 1 manual, restored by Cabourdin in 1984)

Honoré Grinda (30 September 1754 in Nice – 15 June 1843 in Prats-de-Mollo) first learned carpentry with his grandfather, then became an apprentice under Jean-Esprit Isnard, a Dominican from Tarascon near Avignon, himself a noted organ-builder.



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