Monday, March 26, 2012
A BOW'S POWER
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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...
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
GOLD
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Years ago I was visiting with the Parisian luthier and bow connoisseur, Bernard Sabatier. An American violinist who had recently started buy...
Thursday, October 27, 2011
JEAN TRIBLE, THE COLLECTOR
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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...
Friday, October 7, 2011
AN ELUSIVE STICK
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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...
Friday, September 9, 2011
THE COLOR OF WOOD
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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...
Friday, September 2, 2011
EBAUCHAGE
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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...
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
CAMBER: THE HEART OF A BOW
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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...
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