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2. Category:Bow makers - Wikipedia

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   A bow maker/archetier is a person who builds, repairs or restores ancient or modern bows for bowed string instruments Pages in category "Bow makers" The following 74 pages are in this category, out of 74 total.

3. Bow maker - Wikipedia

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   Up until the standardization of the bow by François Tourte in 1785, most bows with rare exceptions remained anonymous (before 1750). [3] And although François Tourte attained an enormous measure of fame in his own lifetime, the tradition of the anonymous bow maker was still so strong that theorists like Woldemar and Fetis called Tourte's new-model bow not the Tourte bow but the Viotti bow ...

4. Heinrich Knopf - Wikipedia

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   "His bows are exquisite, showing mastery in technical as well as stylistic aspects. His son, Heinrich Richard gen. Knopf (1860–1939) (known as Henry) became an excellent bow & violin maker who established what was to become a very important and successful shop in New York City (from 1879–1931)."

5. Galliane - Wikipedia

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   The classical bow was pioneered by François Xavier Tourte, a French master bowmaker from the late 18th and early 19th century. [3] With the help of virtuoso violinist G.B. Viotti he sought to improve upon the limitations of the Baroque bow by lengthening it, strengthening its tip, and introducing a curvature that allowed for greater flexibility and improved the springing action of the bow.

6. John Dodd (bow maker) - Wikipedia

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   John Dodd (1752 in London – 1839 in Richmond, Surrey) was a British bowmaker.He was considered to be the greatest English bowmaker before and until James Tubbs. [1]He was a gunlock fitter and then a money scale maker before turning to bow making.

7. William Watson (bow maker) - Wikipedia

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   William D Watson (1930 – 2018) was an English bow maker. The last pupil of William Retford, William Watson worked for the firm of W.E. Hill & Sons from 1945 to 1962. He continued to make exemplary bows after leaving the firm and built a reputation as an authority on the history of British bow making. His bows for Hill are stamped with the ...