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William Lewis & Son was a distinguished Chicago-based music store that specialized in violins and bows.The firm was founded in 1874. [1] In 1995, the company was purchased by Selmer, and has since become a division of Conn-Selmer, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Steinway Musical Instruments.
Teach Yourself Bluegrass Fiddle. Music Sales America, 1999; Berklee Practice Method: Violin. (with Mimi Rabson) Berklee Press, 2004; Texas and Swing Fiddle. Homespun, 2004; Vassar Clements - Fiddle: Bluegrass Masters Series. Music Sales America, 2008; Bluegrass Fiddle and Beyond: Etudes and Ideas for the Modern Fiddler. Berklee Press, 2010
So, naturally, the violin's owner was happy to hear the German violin itself was worth more than $5,000. But she was absolutely shocked when the French Sartory bow was appraised at $20,000.
A bow maker typically uses between 150 and 200 hairs from the tail of a horse for a violin bow. Bows for other members of the violin family typically have a wider ribbon, using more hairs. White hair generally produces a smoother sound and black hair (used mainly for double bass bows) is coarser, producing a rougher sound. Lower quality ...
Highlights in the April 2010 sale included a Joseph Alfred Lamy violin bow that sold for $54,000. [ 16 ] The October 2010 sale, in addition to setting a new world record of $9.4 million for a musical instrument auction, [ 17 ] included an 1892 Vincenzo Postiglione violin that sold for a record $126,000 [ 18 ] and a Nicolas Maline violin bow ...
A phonofiddle is a class of stringed musical instruments that are played with a bow and use a phonograph type reproducer as a voice-box. The sound producing diaphragm may be a metal cone as in the Stroh violin or a mica sheet as in the instruments made by A. T. Howson, London and the Stroviols company of Britain. The sound generated by the ...