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Bowmaking History
Bow Technology
Improvements in the techniques of bowmaking.
Corelli bow model
1690
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Tartini/Pugnani bow model
1730
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Screw Mechanism Acceptance
1750
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Universal acceptance by this date.
Cramer bow model
1770
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F. Tourte invents the ferrule
1782
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Viotti bow model
1782
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Tourte & his younger contemporaries
1800 - 1835
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Vuillaume bow makers. Peccatte dominates.
1835 - 1865
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Voirin School. Quest for delicacy.
1865 - 1900
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Sartory, Fetique, Ouchard. Power and response.
1900 - 1950
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German Bowmakers
Formal application for Bowmaking guild in Saxony.
1790
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French Bowmakers
Nicolas Leonard Tourte
1746 - 1807
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Francois-Xavier Tourte
1748 - 1835
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Francois (II) Lupot
1774 - 1838
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Invented the coulisse. Helps protect the rails from cracking, and stabilizes the seating of the frog.
One of the first to use "Maillechort" mounted frogs on premium sticks. (Nickel - Silver or "German Silver") Around 1824.
F. Tourte begins full-time bowmaking
1775
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Jean Pierre Marie Persoit
1784 - 1854
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Worked for Vuillaume, helped to train Peccatte.
Charles-Francois Gand (Gand Pere)
1789 - 1845
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Born in Versaille
Inherited Nicolas Lupot shop in Paris- married Lupot's adopted daughter.
Etienne Pajeot
1791 - 1849
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Mirecourt.
N. Tourte in exile
1793 - 1794
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Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume
1798 - 1875
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Trained Peccatte.
Dominique Peccate
1810 - 1874
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Vuillaume shop established
1826
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Francois Nicolas Voirin
1833 - 1885
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Lighter weight
Later, clear, orange-colored pernambuco.
Smaller, daintier head. Curve begins immediately behind.
Started in Vuillaume shop.
Trained Louis Thomassin, Joseph Alfred Lamy, pere.
Charles Nicolas Bazin
1847 - 1915
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Influenced by Voirin school. Graceful, refined style.
Charles Peccatte
1850 - 1918
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Nephew of Dominique.
Taught Sartory.
Strength and power.
Joseph Alfred Lamy, pere
1850 - 1919
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Grace, neatness.
Taught Sartory.
Joseph Arthur Vigneron
1851 - 1916
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Earlier, bolder style: Husson, Simon.
Voirin opens own shop.
1870
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Eugene Sartory
1871 - 1946
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Strongly compact style head
Idiosyncratic model frog and button. Rarely altered, ebony/silver/Parisian eyes.
More wood behind the head for added power at the tip.
Victor Fetique
1872 - 1933
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Emile Auguste Ouchard
1900 - 1969
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Trained with father, Emile Francois Ouchard - MIrecourt.
1940 - opened own shop in Paris.
1946-1960 lived in NYC
Powerful, strong, weighty stick.
Performers
Arcangelo Corelli
1653 - 1713
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Giuseppe Tartini
1692 - 1770
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Wilhelm Cramer
1746 - 1799
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Mannheim violin virtuoso. Leading advocate for the Cramer bow.
Giovanni Batista Viotti
1755 - 1824
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Italian virtuoso, prominent in French society.
Cramer in Paris
1769 - 1772
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Viotti's Parisian debut
1782
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Viotti resettles in England
1792
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Concurrent Musical Events
Beginning of the evolution of opera in Italy
1600
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Longer musical lines required a longer bow for legato bow strokes.
Paris Conservatoire founded
1795
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Concurrent Historical Events
French Revolution
1789 - 1799
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Paris Theatres close
1792
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Reign of Terror
1793 - 1794
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