Since pioneering the original carbon fiber bow, CodaBow is the premier maker of violin, viola, cello, and bass carbon fiber bows. Backed by award-winning designs, CodaBows are nearly indestructible, made in the USA and rival the quality of pernambuco bows - without the cost-prohibitive price or relying on an endangered wood species. From beginner and student musicians to advanced and professional players, CodaBow has carbon fiber bow models and resources for every musical style, station, and aspiration.
It sounds like he’s doing his best to not compliment Codabow despite the fact that he’s promoting codabow. Why not just say codabow is great? I don’t get it
@nickiemcnichols5397 First, very carefully. I use alcohol to clean the hair and strip off the rosin. So much as a small drop of alcohol on your bow wood will damage the finish. I am careful to ensure that does not happen. After cleaning the hair, I blot it and hang the bow to dry in my shop. You can also use detergent like Dawn to wash the hair. This is way safer and is the method I used as a teen. I had to ship my bows to a violin maker then so a frequent rehair was not practical. I learned to clean my hair and rehair infrequently. That has always worked for me. A violin maker told me that hair does not wear out but gets brittle and breaks. When I experience this I rehair.
@@arthurmroyce I use Alcohol prep pads (those little pads that a nurse or doctor rubs the area that an injection is going to be applied to) that you can get from your local pharmacy. They are cheap - I got 200 for $3.49 Canadian - enough for my musical lifetime. And they are not dripping wet, but be very careful - alcohol can do nasty things to varnish. I wrap the stick with a relatively thick microfibre cloth to protect it. And every once in a while I check to see how much rosin is left on my strings and if it's excessive (in my opinion), I use a prep pad to clean the excess off. If I'm cleaning the strings constantly, then I'm rosining too much. A prep pad can be used to get dirt and rosin off the fingerboard. Once again protect the instrument - the microfibre cloth is under the fingerboard to the bridge. And I put my mute on the bridge to make sure I don't bump the bridge or get alcohol on it. Also, there are opinions that cleaning your strings with alcohol degrades the life of the strings. Cleaning the strings repeatedly with alcohol, I can understand that, but if cleaning the excess off once improves the sound, sure. Beats having to buy a new set of Pirazzi Gold (that's what were on my violin when I bought it) and they're not exactly cheap here in Canada...
Definitely looking into a Prodigy bow as my first CodaBow to dip my toes. I mainly play folk music on a German violin built in 1892. It has a grungy and meaty tone.
A beautiful video. Interesting visuals for a company who specializes in carbon fiber, but absolutely beautiful. I hear people talk about how at the highest end, the pernambuco bows are much more "alive" but as a beginner, I play better on the stable, smooth NX than I do on any of the wooden bows I've tried under $1,000 I look forward to getting to the point where I can, perhaps, appreciate what comes from the marquise or higher end pernambuco bows, although I certainly like the idea of a CF bow which does not require endangered woods.
