Tourte Le Jeune - bow making
While at a conference last year in Portland, Oregon I ordered this book, which arrived a few weeks ago. It is a catalogue of an exhibition on bows made by Francois Xaviar Tourte. The exhibition was held in London, England in 2008 and focused on Tourte, the founder of modern bow [...]
Pernambuco and bow rehairing.
Since November last year, we have been donating 1 US dollar to ICPI with each bow rehair done in our shop.
ICPI is the “International Conservation of Pernambuco Initiative”. Each US dollar raised plants one Pernambuco sapling. This is goes toward an international effort to save this endangered Brazilian tree. Pernambuco has been the [...]