One thing I think about often is the ratio between the resistance or basic strength of a bow and the string length of the instrument. This i...

Years ago I was visiting with the Parisian luthier and bow connoisseur, Bernard Sabatier. An American violinist who had recently started buy...

It was November of 1983 in Paris and a small man of perhaps seventy sat bundled in trenchcoat and scarf on the Metro line Port de Clignancou...

For a bow maker, the selection of the Pernambuco stick is the most important element in matching a bow to a player. Some time ago, the violi...

There is a tendency among players to equate very dark colored wood with high quality. Here it is easy to be misled. In fact superb wood come...

Now a stick is being planed down prior to putting in the camber or curve. This stage is called the ebauchage or roughing out. During the c...

As far as the way a bow performs and sounds there three things that represent the bow maker’s intentions and what he or she s...