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Bows and bow styles for bowed string instruments.

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  • CodaBow Diamond SX

    Bow · United States

    The CodaBow Diamond SX is a performance carbon fiber bow for violin, viola, and cello in CodaBow's Diamond Collection. It pairs the exclusive Diamond Weave graphite-fiber shaft with a Blended Acoustic Core aimed at a focused, brighter, lively tone, fitted with an eco-friendly Xebony composite frog. CodaBow positions it as an agile bow well suited to studio, orchestral, and traveling players, and its GlobalBow certification means it contains no endangered, monitored, or regulated species for worry-free international travel.

  • JonPaul Muse

    Bow · United States

    The JonPaul Muse is a hand-made Salt Lake City carbon fiber bow created for players who want a playing experience close to JonPaul's flagship Carrera at a lower price. Its stick is slightly stronger than its predecessor and feels highly responsive, and it is mounted in sterling silver with JonPaul's signature hand-finished texture and a hand-colored finish like the Carrera. JonPaul positions the Muse as affordable luxury. Offered for violin, viola, and cello.

  • CodaBow Luma

    Bow · United States

    The CodaBow Luma is an exceptionally light carbon fiber bow for violin, viola, and cello, built around CodaBow's streamlined Aero design that reduces and redistributes frog mass along the shaft to lower overall bow weight while improving facility. The result is a high, shimmering timbre with silky, nimble handling well suited to fast technical passages. It uses an eco-friendly Xebony composite frog and carries GlobalBow certification so it contains no endangered or regulated materials.

  • JonPaul Carrera

    Bow · United States

    The JonPaul Carrera is one of JonPaul's flagship professional carbon fiber bows, hand-made in Salt Lake City and patterned after an exquisite French Pajeot bow. It is mounted in sterling silver with a fan-tail button and a hand-colored, varnished red-brown finish, with frog and button available in ebony, white horn, or black horn. Quick and agile, it feels like an extension of the player's arm and produces warm, rich, and powerful tones; it is played and endorsed by symphony, stage, and studio professionals. Offered for violin, viola, and cello.

  • CodaBow Diamond NX

    Bow · United States

    The CodaBow Diamond NX is the entry model of CodaBow's Diamond Collection, a carbon fiber bow for violin, viola, and cello aimed at pre-professionals, amateurs, and advancing students. It uses CodaBow's first-of-its-kind 3-D woven Diamond Weave graphite architecture from tip to button for strong tracking and responsiveness, an NX Acoustic Core for an uncomplicated, sweet tone, and an eco-friendly Xebony composite frog. Its stronger, firmer stick and added weight give advancing players stability, and it carries GlobalBow certification for travel without endangered or regulated materials.

  • CodaBow Prodigy

    Bow · United States

    The CodaBow Prodigy is a student-grade carbon fiber bow made for violin, viola, and cello, designed for beginning and developing string players. Its forgiving Center-Tip balance helps accommodate the coarse motor control and right-hand technique of early players, while carbon fiber construction makes it far more durable and consistent than an inexpensive wood student bow. It is American-made by CodaBow in Winona, Minnesota.

  • Arcus M-Series

    Bow · Germany

    The Arcus M-Series is a line of hollow carbon fiber bows with somewhat more flexible sticks, giving a particularly warm and round tone and versatile all-around handling that suits lighter instruments. Arcus describes them as supporting each step of a player's technical development, making them well suited to orchestral players, students, and amateurs. Offered for violin, viola, and cello in several performance grades.

  • JonPaul Fusion

    Bow · United States

    The JonPaul Fusion is a carbon fiber bow with a high-grade carbon stick wrapped in wood, available with silver or nickel-silver fittings for violin, viola, cello, and bass. Well balanced, lively, and attractive, it is offered through JonPaul as an imported model and is positioned as an upgrade choice for advancing players. Unlike JonPaul's USA-made bows, the Fusion is an import, so its country of manufacture is not specified by the maker.

  • CodaBow Diamond

    Bow · United States

    The Diamond Collection is CodaBow's range of advanced-to-professional carbon fiber bows for violin, viola, and cello, comprising the Diamond NX, SX, and GX models. The series is engineered to approach the agility and tone-drawing properties of fine wood bows, sharing CodaBow's Diamond Weave graphite-fiber shaft, an eco-friendly Xebony composite frog, and GlobalBow certification so the bows contain no endangered or regulated materials.

  • Arcus T-Series

    Bow · Germany

    The Arcus T-Series is a line of hollow carbon fiber bows introduced in 2019 and among Arcus's best-selling models. Built on Arcus's signature thin-walled, hollow carbon fiber construction, T-series bows are described as truly universal and perfectly balanced: full, round, and warm but also brilliant and colorful, with elasticity that fits regular instruments and medium-gauge strings. The series is offered for violin, viola, and cello, with individual bows graded by performance class.

  • Arcus P-Series

    Bow · Germany

    The Arcus P-Series is a line of hollow carbon fiber violin bows designed for stronger-build instruments and heavy-gauge strings, where they provide added power and stability. Like the rest of the Arcus range, P-series bows use the company's thin-walled, hollow carbon fiber construction and are graded by performance class.

  • JonPaul Avanti

    Bow · United States

    The JonPaul Avanti is the company's least expensive silver-mounted carbon fiber bow and a model that has been part of the JonPaul range from the beginning. Hand-crafted in Salt Lake City, it is designed to feel, sound, and play like a bow costing far more, with an agile, responsive character and a sweet, warm tone and smooth pull. It is offered for violin, viola, and cello.

Makers

  • Arcus

    Arcus is a German carbon fiber bow maker founded by Bernd Müsing, who began researching bows in 1995 and first sold Arcus bows in 1999. Based in Würzburg, Germany, the company applies engineering and materials know-how from Müsing's earlier bicycle-frame manufacturing to bow making. Arcus bows use a signature very thin-walled, hollow carbon fiber stick with slightly reduced camber, making them notably lighter yet higher in tension than traditional wooden bows and optimized for modern strings. Every bow is made entirely by hand for violin, viola, cello, and double bass, with the current range organized into the T, S, P, M, and G series.

  • JonPaul

    JonPaul (JonPaul Bows) is an American bow maker in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah, founded as a partnership between bow makers Jon Hatch and Paul Prier. The company hand-crafts a line of carbon composite (carbon fiber) bows for violin, viola, cello, and bass that merge traditional French bow-making techniques with modern high-tech materials, and it also distributes imported bows. Its USA-made range spans entry-level to professional master bows, including the Avanti, Corona, Bravo, Carrera, Muse, and Vetta, with the Fusion offered as an imported carbon fiber model.

  • CodaBow

    CodaBow is an American manufacturer of carbon fiber bows for violin, viola, cello, and double bass, based in Winona, Minnesota. A pioneer of the composite bow, the company is widely regarded as the leading maker of advanced carbon fiber bows, offering a tiered range from student bows to master-level performance models built with proprietary materials such as its Xebony composite frog material.

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