Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Arthur Richard Bultitude (14 January 1908 – 1990) MBE was an English musical instrument bow maker, [1] who spent much of his life working as a craftsman for the firm of W.E. Hill & Sons. [2] Bultitude was brought to and introduced to the Hill shop by William Napier (father of Frank Napier another exceptional Hill bow maker) at the age of 14.
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.
Jean Pierre Marie Persoit [Persois] - (1782/83? in Mirecourt – after 1854) was a great [1] and intriguing French bowmaker or Archetier. [2]One of the first bowmakers to be hired by the young Jean Baptiste Vuillaume.
Violin Bow by Jean-Jacques Millant, Paris, Gold-Mounted, Head Violin Bow by Jean-Jacques Millant, Paris, Gold-Mounted, Frog. Jean-Jacques Millant (1928–1998) was an influential French bow maker/archetier (French word for maker of string family bows) of the Dominique Peccatte school.
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 ...
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.
Get AOL Mail for FREE! Manage your email like never before with travel, photo & document views. Personalize your inbox with themes & tabs. You've Got Mail!
Peccatte passed on to Henry and Simon his teachings from Persoit (Persois) regarding the cambering of the bow (the shaping and imprinting of the curve of the bow). This collaboration gave rise to what is considered to be the best wood-bending school in France: Persoit-Peccatte-Henry-Simon. 150-200 years later, it is difficult to find a bow made ...