Emmanuel Begin bows
When customers are trying different instruments in our shop, they often take out their own bow to use. It makes sense for customers to use a bow they know well when trying to choose a violin. But my heart sinks if their bow is a very poor quality stick or missing half of it’s hair […]
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 main […]