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Served his apprenticeship in Mirecourt (his hometown). His early style of bow making was very much influenced by the Adam school. He produced excellent bows. He also made many instruments including an occasional guitar. According to Mr. Bernard Millant and Mr. Raffin, Joseph Gaude may have worked for the Etienne Pajeot firm around 1835. At this ...
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 ...
Tubbs first started making bows for William Ebsworth Hill around 1860 and continued that relationship until 1870. His bows made for W. E. Hill & Sons are stamped W E Hill and are sometimes double stamped. In the 1870s Tubbs settled on his own opening a shop at 94 Wardour Street. The early bows from this period were branded "J. TUBBS."
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 Joseph Martin (b.Mirecourt (Vosges) 1837 – d. Paris 1910) was a French Archetier / Bowmaker.. Served his apprenticeship with Nicolas Remy Maire.In 1858 left Mirecourt for Paris to join Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume's workshop.
"Louis Morizot trained many pupils including Bernard Millant and his five sons Marcel, Louis, Paul, André, and George Morizot.." Among the six sons son's of Louis Père, the well-known Mirecourt bow maker, René (the youngest), is the only one to have dedicated his life to violin making."
François Xavier Tourte (1747 – 25 April 1835) was a French bow maker who made a number of significant contributions to the development of the bow of stringed instruments, and is considered to be the most important figure in the development of the modern bow. Because of this, he has often been called the Stradivari of the bow. [1] [2]
Dominique Peccatte (15 July 1810 – 13 January 1874) was a French luthier and above all a renowned bow maker. [1] He was apprenticed in Mirecourt and later worked with Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume . He is notable for adapting the "hatchet-shaped" type head — a model arrived at by Tourte — and is considered one of the most influential bow makers.