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The search for a new bow

April 25, 2006 at 2:29 AM

Having finally sold my violin a few months ago (after about 2 years of trying to sell it), the search is now on for a new bow. My teacher has his contacts, and is getting me a couple of bows to try out in my range, and they should be along fairly soon - hopefully by my next lesson (otherwise I will have to wait until my teacher gets back from his orchestra's tour to China).

In the mean time, I've been sourcing out other places. I've tried out a couple of bows at Zeniths and my boss (I work at a music store) is also going to source out some bows for me, so I will end up having quite a few options. My boss is also going to try and get a Coda Conservatory over for me to try out as well, as I would like to try at least one carbon fibre bow.

So anyway, that's how the search is going at the moment, I will let you know more when I know more.

Ben

I went shopping for a new violin and/or bow with one of my students, just to give him advice, of course. I rather like the Coda Conservatory bow. (It is a carbon fiber bow.) It sells for about $350 around here. I saw one on ebay for a little over $200, but it's used. Hmmmmm.
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