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Frank Passa (1916–2001) was an internationally known American maker of bows and violins (archetier and luthier). A native of New York City, Frank Passa was born in 1916 to poor Sicilian immigrants. He was a pupil of Simone Fernando Sacconi a very talented violin maker from Italy.
The archery business was named Bear Archery. In 1947 the company moved to a new facility in Grayling, Michigan. The Grayling plant focused on making and marketing recurve bows and longbows in a growing archery market. Bow manufacturing changed from hand-made bows to mass production using fiberglass and other modern materials.
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.
Ben Pearson (November 16, 1898 – March 2, 1971) was an American archer, bowyer, and fletcher from Pine Bluff, Arkansas.He is most notable for starting the first company in the United States to mass-produce archery sets and equipment. [1]
A bowyer is a master-craftsman who makes bows. Though this was once a widespread profession, the importance of bowyers and of bows was diminished by the introduction of gunpowder weaponry. However, the trade has survived and many bowyers continue to produce high-end bows. Freshly cut wood split into bow staves.
Joseph Arthur Vigneron (b. Mirecourt, 1851; d. Paris, 1905) was an important French Archetier / Bowmaker.. He served his apprenticeship with his stepfather Charles Claude Husson in Mirecourt, where he studied side by side with Joseph Alfred Lamy père (father of the Lamy family of bow makers), who was less than a year older than he was.
Benoît Marie Rolland (born 12 September 1954 Paris), is a bow maker and musician, currently established in Boston, Massachusetts. An internationally renowned bow maker, he is a 2012 MacArthur Fellow [1] and a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres (2017). [2]
Bernard Ouchard (15 February 1925, in Mirecourt – 2 June 1979, in Vittel) was a French master bow maker and teacher in the School of Violin and Bowmaking of Mirecourt, France. He is considered by some to have been the last historical French master bow maker.
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