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Violin bow
stick: pernambuco, fluted upper two-thirds, lower end round and plain; head faced with ivory; frog: white ivory, unlined, with no slide or ferrule, elaborately cut; screw: iron; eye: iron; tip of adjuster ivory, a knob flattened on both sides with small ebony stud in the end; length 750, hair 647, diameter at frog 8.0, diameter at head 5.0, weight 50.1 gr.
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1750–60 - Maker:
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Royal Northern College of Music - Inventory number:
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England
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- Decorative elements:stick: fluted upper two-thirds only; fluting carried halfway along head to make a definite ridge above a concave curve, facetted, into a swan’s head as nose; frog: with decorative fretwork pattern cut away
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- Repository:Royal Northern College of Music