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Diamond bow


This violin bow was created from a magnificent piece of pernambuco with amazing acoustical qualities. Instead of the mother-of-pearl in the frog and button , one finds 3 Fancy Intensive Yellow brilliant-cut diamonds (total 1 carat). The setting of the diamonds was performed by the excellent jeweller E.A.Santoni.


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Black & White

Using the combination of ebony and fossil mammoth, the concept was born out of a “dual design” of the frog and button. Extending this idea to the metalwork  as well, one is confronted with the  technical challenge of soldering all the parts half-and-half. These have to be centered perfectly on a line all around the frog, including the top slide.

Until now Netland has chosen to combine ebony with white gold on the player’s side, and mammoth and rosè gold on the audience side. Some “black-and-white” bows have a double face tip plate. This  takes at least two days to glue to the head of the stick, since each of the 4 parts has to be lined up and glued separately. 

This  innovation carries an international design patent.

 

 
 

 

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Some “black-and-white” bows have a double face tip plate. This  takes at least two days to glue to the head of the stick, since each of the 4 parts has to be lined up and glued separately.

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A BOW TO YOUR STRINGS

A bow whose radical design allows performers to play four strings at once has been played for the first time. The stick, designed by Norwegian maker Helge Netland, was commisioned by oboist and composer Heinz Holliger for his piece Toronto Exercise. Netland said that he experimented with some 'crazy designs with strange movable parts' but finally decided on two parallell sets of hair, the lower one playing the E and G strings and the higher sounding the A and D. He explained the benefit of this solution: 'It allowed me to settle on a somewhat classical design for the head, even though it has two mortices.' In order to use the bow, the player takes the front plug from the head, passes the hair between the strings and replaces the plug. The bow is then effectively locked between the strings and the performer can play sustained chords over either three of four strings, depending on the angle of the bow. Netland said that Holliger is planning further compositions for the bow.

Thestrad june 2008

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