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Hermann Wilhelm Prell (1875–1925) was a skillful German bow maker. He was born on July 29, 1875, in Bad Brambach, Germany. Hermann Wilhelm spent his formative years as a pupil of Heinrich Hoyer. In the early years afterwards he worked for Albert Nurnberger (1893–1895) and August Rau (1896).
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. His cousin, Bernard Millant (born 1929) produced bows similar in style.
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.
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Nicolas Maline (28 February 1822 – 28 April 1877 in Mirecourt) was a luthier and an archetier/bow maker. He was apprenticed in Mirecourt and worked for Etienne Pajeot, J.B. Vuillaume and other makers. Maline came from a family of luthiers including his father Guillaume Maline (long considered to be the bowmaking Maline).
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 ...
He was a prolific maker and is generally regarded as the most important bowmaker of the second half of the 19th century. His bows are of superb quality. Voirin produced a radically different bow from François Tourte ; Slimmer head; the camber moved closer to head, yielding a stronger stick and reducing the thickness of the shaft especially at ...
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.