DescriptionTechnical description: The convex, light brown, 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, dark brown, wooden, fixed frog has a front point and is held in place by a screw through the top of the stick. The bow currently has black hair.
Measurements: Weight: 112g. Hair length: 538mm. Balance point: 287mm. Head height: 58.5mm. Head width: 16.0mm. Face length: c. 42mm (mid-point to mid-point; difficult to measure with hair in place). Tip diameter: 13.7mm. Frog diameter: 14.2mm. Period of oscillation: 1.38. Distance from pivot to tail: 106.2mm. Ferrule width: 18.0mm. Frog + stick height: 64.2mm. Frog top length: 66.8mm.
Inscriptions: There is an illegible stamp or blackened gouge on top of the stick, towards the middle of the bow.
The bow possibly had rings holding the frog in place; if so, the rings are now missing. There is a chunk out of the top of the stick, below the middle of the bow.
Illustration references: World-Wide Web picture at http://music.ed.ac.uk/euchmi/
Current ownership: Lent by J.W. Phillips. |