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Making Matters: the story and influence of bow maker Joseph Arthur Vigneron

2024-08-01T08:17:00

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Marking the 100th anniversary of André Vigneron’s death, Hamilton Caswell considers the influence he and his father Joseph Arthur have had on the generations of bow makers that followed, particularly on bass bows

‘Whenever we take up a Vigneron bow, an involuntary exclamation of pleasure rises to our lips,’ wrote William Henley, very aptly, in his Universal Dictionary of Violin and Bow Makers. Joseph Arthur Vigneron (1851–1905) and his son André (1882–1924) were among the finest French bow makers, having the rarest of talent and an innate ‘feel’ for design, as well as for imbuing their bows with very exceptional playability…

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