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RCM 595
Cello bow, Dodd style, England, c.1800

Inscriptions

None

 

Description

Method of hair tightening: frog and hair missing

 

Stick: made of meatwood; cross section round, octagonal for c.50mm at frog end; no wiring or padding

Head: facing: ebony strip; trapezoid plane; hollowed trapezoid plug

Frog: missing

Dimensions

Overall length: 695
Stick diameter at head: 7
Stick diameter at frog: 10
Playing length of hair: -
Overall length of hair: -
Width of hair at frog: -
Hair to stick at head: -
Hair to stick at frog: -
Max concavity: 12 @ 350 from head
Weight: 41g

Provenance

Amaryllis Fleming Foundation, 2002

Additional remarks

Curved in the middle; the bow was in use until quite recently – it still has a head facing plug with remnants of hair
  
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