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"My new S6 is an excellent bow. I
can attest all information and reports on your website. This is true progress!
Everything works better, even with the wood bow I am using from time to time. Congratulations and
many thanks." "I am a proud owner of one of the new Allegro bows. I always have had the problem of producing a continuous and homogeneous tone, but not any more. Despite its stiffness the Allegro does not feel inflexible at all and it looks like I will neglect my old fidgety wooden bow in the future. But, only recently, when I had to play with it again because a friend had borrowed the Allegro off me I realized that I was able to play with the wooden bow better than before. I was stunned, it really had not occurred to me that the Allegro might have “teaching” qualities. It is probably the relaxed bow hold that the Allegro helps to develop with its easy response and big sound that made me play with much less pressure and which in the end helped to improve my bowing technique. In any case, I am more than happy and consider these bows to be a “must have”." Andreas Kanev
"I am an adult violin student, playing for 14 month now. I have just started playing in higher positions and trying more difficult bowings. When I unpacked the bow i went "Oh...". The bow is feast for the eyes. The silver tip plate, the shimmering graphite of the shaft, the black frog with the large pearl eyes, the reflections on the button, the close winding and the dark leather, all combined give a truly noble appearance, which the pictures did show really. The second "Oh..." came directly after this. A bow can never be really that light! The bow that I have been using so far had 61 grams. in comparison to the Sonata it appears as if I had played with a hammer until now. The difference in weight is truly enormous. The next "Oh..." came with the first stroke on the violin. I own a 100 year old Schönbacher violin. Not too expensive but "...quite beautiful in sound" according to my preferred luthier. But I had no idea how beautiful my violin really sounds! With this bow the violin responds immediately with a big sound. The next "Ohs..." cam with the playing. Especially for a beginner the difference with your bows are easily recognizable. Double-stops worked much better instantly. The beginner-mistake "too much bow-pressure" is reduced and much less audible. Staccato and Spiccato work nicely without scratching on the strings. String crossings work out much softer. I finally understand what a relaxed right hand means. Especially beginners should use an Arcus bow, as it makes it easier to learn playing the violin and makes it a lot more enjoyable." Luis Garcia "I play Irish Folk... This bow, although only your entry level model "Sonata" is fantastic. In comparison to my wooden bows I experience my instrument entirely new. Only the first half hour of playing has opened a world of possibilities like I have never thought possible, and all this combined with a fantastic clarity and presence of the sound. As I have had a chance to try the other models at the Musikmesse I know that the Concerto and Cadenza offer even further improvements in the sound. That is why I know already that one day I will own one of those models. Through this bow I learn to play a new instruments and a new playing! Many thanks for this bow." Jörg Marquardt "The Concerto S.E. bow is the best bow that I've ever played; my Coda Classic has been retired. The most amazing thing is how pure and sweet the tone is. It really filters out all of the noise and unwanted harmonics as advertised. I'm playing a very old Marcus Steiner labelled violin made of Bird's eye maple with Eudoxa Strings. Thanks again." Bink Williams, Violinist, USA "...The bow responds faster than wooden bows. If allows me as an amateur to play more beautiful. My wife which has to bear my practicing for centuries praised my playing at the very start. Something like that has never happened before! Since I have this bow i have tried my other bows only briefly (Seifert, Dürrschmidt, Voirin). They simply don't match the Arcus." Georg Kemetter, Finnland "...the stiffness of the Arcus bows, combined with their light weight, makes
them very easy to control; for example, recovery from off-string bowing to
legato is instantaneous and smooth. The Arcus Concerto bow plays more cleanly
for me than any other, especially when I am being sloppy on off-string bowings (for
example, brush strokes). Thus, you can treat it roughly against the strings and
still get a good, clean sounding bounced stroke, yet it recovers well. It is the
light weight that helps with this, I think, and the slight displacement of the
CG toward the frog - and the stiffness plays there in an interesting way too. As
a result of these things it is extremely controllable, and when you get to the
right spot, with small enough motions, the spicattos tick off like Morse Code.
Brush strokes (as in Mozart) are delightful to do without fear of messing up
because the bow gives you a lot of leeway. Ricochet bowings (saltando) are
distinctly different than with other bows; the stiffness of the stick combined
with its light weight toward the tip combine to make them a little faster for a
given distance from the hand and very sensitive to initial bow height above the
string or any impetus given by the hand. Andrew Victor, Violinist, Violist and Cellist, California |
