DescriptionTechnical description: The convex, dark red-brown, oiled (?) or varnished (?) wooden stick ends in a rounded meat cleaver head. The stick is rounded along its whole length, even over the frog. Its large, open, completely rounded, ebony, fixed frog is held in place by a screw through the top of the stick and by two metal rings. The bow currently has a mix of brown and black hair.
Measurements: Weight: 140.Hair length: 552.Balance point: 315.Head height: 57.3.Head width: 17.6.Face length: c 35.7 (mid-point to mid-point; difficult to measure with hair in place).Tip diameter: 12.5.Frog diameter: 13.65.Period of oscillation: 1.41.Distance from pivot to tail: 106.85.Ferrule width: 18.6.Frog + stick height: 55.2.
Inscriptions: The thumb side of the stick is stamped "A. COLLINS" in front of the frog; the stick stamp is 1.83mm high and 18.53mm wide. The thumb side of the frog is stamped "A. COLLINS" near the top; the frog stamp is 1.85mm high and 18.41mm wide. The stick stamp is deeper than the frog stamp, and the "." is unclear in the frog stamp.
Illustration references: World-Wide Web picture at http://music.ed.ac.uk/euchmi/
Previous ownership: Harry Hodge.
(Reid Collection). |