When I was studying bass fiddle, some 30 years ago, my bow cost $2000. $6000 for a cello bow now sounds pretty cheap. (I'll stick to building my own instruments for <$50 each, thank you, lol)
> For a beginner? > > > Christopher Witmer wrote: > >> after visiting a shop that specializes in violins and cellos to get a >> cello for another daughter who is starting cello, I will no longer >> complain about the prices of lutes. My other daughter's cello teacher >> generously arranged for her to get the use of a $20,000 cello for free >> (for which I am, as you must imagine, extremely grateful), but there >> were other cellos there costing more than 10 times that much. Yikes! >> And >> the bows! Good grief! A few days ago, if you had told me I would be >> spending $6,000 for a wooden stick with a horsehair ribbon attached to >> it, I would have suggested you go get your head examined. Now I'm the >> one who needs to get his head examined. I called professional cellist X >> to ask her opinion of professional cellist Y's recommendation of a >> $6,000 bow for a beginning student, and she said, "If Y recommended the >> bow, you had better get it. His opinion is entirely trustworthy. The >> store will buy it back for almost the entire purchase price if you ever >> want to get rid of it, so think of it as an interest-free loan to the >> shop. You could get a bow for one-fifth the price, but you would not >> recover the purchase price when you eventually move up to a more >> expensive bow later." > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > -- http://DoctorOakroot.com - Rough-edged songs on homemade GIT-tars.
