Peter Bressan (1663 - 1731) was a noted woodwind instrument maker of whose work several examples exist in museums and private collections.
[1] Pierre was probably educated at the College in Bourg until he was apprenticed for two years to Jean Boysser a master turner at the age of fifteen.
His substantial fortune was diminished by litigation, by the extravagance of his wife, and especially by their involvement in the financial crash of the South Sea Bubble in 1720.
[10] The Dayton Miller collection of flutes and other wind instruments in the Library of Congress, Washington, has 5 recorders by Bressan, illustrated in high definition photographs on their website.
[13] The recorder player Frans Brüggen had a collection of historical instruments[14] amongst which are a number of original Bressans, including the voice flute.
Comparisons of the existing recorders have been made by Bouterse,[18] including notes on how to replicate them and the problems of re-scaling the copies so that they can be played at the modern concert pitch standards of A=440 or A=415 hertz.