Paganini Older Pernambuco Violin Bow – German circa 1920-1930

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We have a German bow that has great age and is in very good condition. The bow has been in a collection of my bows for over 40 years just waiting its turn to get cleaned up, restored, and made showroom ready again. German bows after World War I were stamped with all sorts of Italian or French names to market the bows. Paganini, being a famous violinist, proved to be a popular name for selling sticks.

The bow is all original, I even left the leather wraps that were done for the winding. They prove very functional and feel great in the hand. The wood is pernambuco, with the original ivory tip, round in section, and mounted in nickel silver. The frog has single pearl eyes and a one-piece heel with a three-piece button at the end of the endscrew. The pernambuco has very good strength. I love the bow; it plays well and handles articulations off the strings. This German bow will be excellent for a player looking to get into a wood bow to achieve a different sound on their violin. The stick should give your instrument a darker sound, a more rounded tone than that of a carbon fiber bow which tend in general to make instruments lean to a brighter sound.

This is very nice stick with German bones, created in bow shop that would have had great old world smells like old wood drying on shelves, horsehair that was burned at each end with alcohol burners, bass wood and maple for wedges, and curled pernambuco scraps all over the floor from planing the sticks. It would have been a great sight for me to breathe in and for me to see. The stick is original in all its features and worth a try for a violinist as it’s the real oil painting not a carbon fiber stick.

Weight fully haired 60.1 grams