Waters Violins - Bow Sales

Bow Sales

Updated for September 2010

Bows from Brazil

We have an excellent selection of pernambuco bows from Brazil featuring the work of the following talented makers:

W Imberti
R Francisco
J G Buttoni
G A Zevedo
A Carvalho
W Zucolotto
H Circlo
C Chagas
R Patrocinio
Carlos R Cirilo
Dejair Carletti
P Buzatto
Deonisio Otoni
A Tintori
C Herculano

These bows are excellent quality handmade pernambuco sticks with a good workshop made frog and adjuster carefully fitted, and represent great value for money with prices starting around £300.

Workshop made bows

We usually have a good selection of workshop-made French, German & Swiss bows, together with hand-made examples from the following makers;

John Clutterbuck
(Violin, Viola & Cello bows in stock)

John Clutterbuck `Cello Bow made in the `Hill` style, with the frog fitted directly into a rebate on the stick, and no bottom plate - view of frog end

Charles Nicolas Bazin (1x Silver mounted 1 x Nickel)
(Raffin certificate for silver bow)

John Clutterbuck `Cello Bow - view of head

Charles Alfred Bazin
(Raffin certificate)

C N Bazin, nickel mounted Vuillaume style frog, branded BAZIN on the shaft

C N Bazin, nickel mounted Vuillaume style frog, branded BAZIN on the shaft - head

C N Bazin, silver mounted - view of frog

C N Bazin, silver mounted - view of head

Lothar Herrmann circa 1950
A superbly crafted silver mounted Violin bow
Herrmann is quoted in Henleys dictionary......."Bows of individual and distinctive propriety fit for the most exacting soloists, beautiful workmanship"

Lothar Herrmann - head