frères

French term for brothers, as in Limonaire Frères. The term is listed here as it appears regularly in musical literature and is sometimes confused by the uninitiated. Interchangeable with Gebrüder, the German term for brothers. Bruder, the organ builder, gave the firm’s name as Bruder Frès in its French-language catalogues and as Gebrüder Bruder in its German-language catalogues, for example.