Tibor Kovács

violin bow

2015. szeptember 23.

This violin bow was made by Tibor Kovács in Cremona. Tibor is the youngest of the exhibiting bow makers. Since the bows are listed chronologically according to the date of birth of the makers, this bow — after Béla Szepessy’s ’overture’ — is the ’closing chord’ of the exhibition. I deliberately did not analyze the works of my contemporary colleagues, but with the last bow in the list I decided to break this rule.
Tibor’s works evokes the design of the early French school (around 1800) without imitating them.

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Head sideview — the ebony/silver head-plate is convex, the crown starts with a rounded arching from the stick, the middle part is relatively straight, then with a big verve it turns upwards until the very definitely emerging point.The throat is tensely bent all the way along, the thinnest point of the stick is not found at the junction of the arching and the stick, like on other bows, but a couple of centimeters further. The side of the frog is slightly concave. The chamfer starts widely from the stick and continues to widen until the head-plate.

Head backview — he shaped the chamfers and the throat with only a knife, he did not use rasps or sandpaper.

Head topview — we can see the full shape of the head and the width of the chamfer.

Frog sideview — the throat is very deep just like the French masters did it from 1780 to 1820. The pearl eye is big too.

Frog and adjuster back/underside view — the pearl slide is very wide and the back slide is made of pearl too. We can see this solution on many bows by Francois Lupot II (1774-1838). They are mitre-jointed. The back slide at the bottom slide is very wide. The pearl eye of the adjuster is big too.

Frog from ferrule — we can see well on this photo that the size of the octagonal part of the adjuster is the same as that of the stick, but the collar has a definitely larger diameter and thus protects the edges of the stick ends.

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Tibor Kovács

Head backview — he shaped the chamfers and the throat with only a knife, he did not use rasps or sandpaper.

Head topview — we can see the full shape of the head and the width of the chamfer.

Frog sideview — the throat is very deep just like the French masters did it from 1780 to 1820. The pearl eye is big too.

Frog and adjuster back/underside view — the pearl slide is very wide and the back slide is made of pearl too. We can see this solution on many bows by Francois Lupot II (1774-1838). They are mitre-jointed. The back slide at the bottom slide is very wide. The pearl eye of the adjuster is big too.

Frog from ferrule — we can see well on this photo that the size of the octagonal part of the adjuster is the same as that of the stick, but the collar has a definitely larger diameter and thus protects the edges of the stick ends.

Frog from slide

The frog is slightly narrowing backwards.

The pearl eyes are quite big.

The adjuster is quite long, the silver rings are relatively narrow.

The stick end — neat work and an extra stamp.

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