Suddenly a broken bow

January 25, 2006 at 11:37 AM

During an orchestral rehearsal of the 4th symfony of Nielsen (rare piece I like that) yesterday, I suddenly got hair over my violin. First I thought I broke a string, but that makes more noise. It was my bow of 225 euro, I bought some months ago, that was broken. I didn't play forte, but a piano tremolo or a slow note. But I had another reserve bow so I could play further.

From Ben Clapton
Posted on January 25, 2006 at 12:39 PM

Oooh, tough break.

From John Taylor
Posted on January 25, 2006 at 1:50 PM

Was it a chinese bow?I once saw the same happen during a rehearsal and the bow was a cheapo chinese one!

From Bill _
Posted on January 25, 2006 at 2:15 PM

I like Bram's nonchalant way of expression in english; the show must go on!

From Bill _
Posted on January 25, 2006 at 2:16 PM

Send it my way and I'll epoxy it for you :-)

From Carley Anderson
Posted on January 25, 2006 at 4:52 PM

Oooooohhh! That is PAINFUL to look at! too bad....

From Jonathan Frohnen
Posted on January 25, 2006 at 5:04 PM

Bram, your pictures are always so pretty! Even this one turned out beautiful!

From Bram Heemskerk
Posted on January 25, 2006 at 5:33 PM

It is a scan on my work during the middaybreak, where I also scan my rare violinconcerto's. I got a reaction from Joseph Gold about a letter of de Sarasate, who said that he liked Lalo op.20 violinconcerto in F major more than Lalo's Symf.Espagn.

From Jonathan Frohnen
Posted on January 25, 2006 at 5:46 PM

Joseph is great, I'm great friends with him. He's also my neighbor!

From Nat Little
Posted on January 25, 2006 at 9:35 PM

Isn't he a Heifetz student?

From Jonathan Frohnen
Posted on January 25, 2006 at 9:53 PM

Heifetz, Shapiro, Galamian...etc...he has tons of great stories

From Jonathan Frohnen
Posted on January 25, 2006 at 10:12 PM

Actually come to think...I'm not sure about Galamian...I'd have to double check ;-) I'm sure about the other two

From Danielle Gauthier
Posted on January 26, 2006 at 12:45 AM

I've had the exact same thing happen to a bow...looked a lot like that. of course, i broke mine trying to prove that, given the right skill, a wooden bow could beat a carbon fiber one. I lost.

From Pauline Lerner
Posted on January 26, 2006 at 9:24 AM

Your photo is very good, but the message it conveys is very painful. I don't relate to euros. Was your bow cheap or expensive?

From Bram Heemskerk
Posted on January 26, 2006 at 11:46 AM

I found the ticket. I bought it 12-8-04 for 220 euro. 1dollar is 1,30 euro, so it was a cheap bow of 170 dollar. It was not a foto, but a scan from Scanjet 5300C HP on my work near my computer. After my work I will visit the violin-maker and than again an orchestra rehearsal with the 1th celloconcerto op. 46 of Henri Vieuxtemps with my reserve or new bow.

From Jim W. Miller
Posted on January 27, 2006 at 7:11 AM

Aliphatic resin glue, prime each side to avoid a dry join, align perfectly, clamp moderately using leather pads. Don't touch it for a week. Sell on Ebay for 3x what you paid for it. Haa. My gut feeling is it'll hold if you do a good job. If you want, reinforce it with a thin screw then file the head off with a dremel tool. It'll rock.

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