Hi, Esther. I noticed you're not using this bow in any of the videos you posted subsequent to this one. It seems that, despite the glowing review, it may be inferior to whatever bow(s) you use. Of course, for all we know, your primary bow could be a Tourte, which would explain it. But, since the Marquise has obviously not become your bow of choice, would you mind giving some updated insights on it?
I really loved my Coda bow. The silver wire tarnished quite quickly, but otherwise it was the best I ever used. I just wish there was a way to unsubscribe from their news letter! And as usual, great playing!
Ester, thank you for reviewing the Escher by CodaBow. That was a very nice introduction and demonstration. Not all of us are fortunate enough to have a big shop with lots of higher tier options available. I have to plan a big trip, or order online. Based on your recommendation I have purchased this model. Thank you for taking the time.
Thank you for this. As someone who is looking for a bow, likely a few, of many shapes and sizes. I'm a composer or just as well songwriter and producer to the popular world. I love musical history and find the math and cross cultural topics fascinating as the same families or classes of instruments have shown up everywhere. For a long time I have used computers to aid me create fundamentals and add harmonics to create novel sorts of tones and it is possible to do this. However, building things by hand gives another orientation to the whys and hows of orchestration even it's blending synthetically generated tones. So I really have a good reason to try different rosins and bows on of my bass guitar, it's in Cello range and I have lots strings which make it well modified for the task, cheaper to try certain things before I built something I can't change. I have some very old violins and bows that need to be rehaired, but it would be insane to damage them; I was afraid to touch them until I started on these projects and I do prefer the all fifths tuning at least to fourths but I'm trying to maintain functional harmony in 17 and 24 tone octaves instead of 12. I've gotten bored ad found the Persian and Arabic instruments I wanted to emulate employed bows of all sorts, aside from their neutral 3rds (350 cents or 3 and 1/2 semitones). It seems carbonfiber will not greatly sway me either way when it comes to my kind of unique use. It's all a big experiment to expand beyond the choices that come from breaking diatonic music down into chromatic and less functional. I think there are other ways left in the past which don't fit well for orchestra or ensemble, nor commercial and popular work.
It sounds amazing! Have you considered reviewing the Müsing bows ? In theory they are as good as the coda bows, just different manufacturer; but I have never tried them.
If you join her patreon ... the card she sends is like the best thing ever!!! Just think, when shes even more famous it will be worth so much to have her autograph ;) (not like you could ever let it got though). Really you get a lot of great things when you are helping support her music, she's worth it and last time I looked she offered violin lessons for a very low price!
Feel like I just watched the movie trailer to all my favorite violin - classical music pieces. Great stuff, nice review. How on earth do you memorize so much music??
Does it come with real bow hair. You make it (the violin) sound absolutely amazing. But I think I can hear the difference in the contact, slightly less of a clean grip of the string, more raspy. It almost doesn’t matter to the listener because you play so beautifully of course!
Yes very good sound with Coda bow , your violin is good . practice in a too without furniture and curtains only tge walls an sealing ...then the akkustik will be better , nothing to dampen the sound. you play so well .
Hello Esther!! It's a very beautiful bow and looks very comfy to hold, it sound so full, clear and clean?? I love it :o thank you so much for the review!! I'd like to try the bow someday if I'm ready for the violin/bow upgrade ahahah. Oh! I wonder if you and anyone here ever named your Bow and Violin? or Is it usual for someone named their music instrument? Sorry for the random question (≧▽≦) Anyway, hope you guys have a good day! Stay safe and stay healthy~
Hey Esther! Any tips on finding good fingerings online? I'm also working on Mendelssohn at the moment and can't seem to find anything, aside from just watching videos and trying to pause the frame every few seconds haha.
Did you get lucky with one that arrived pre-rosined? Every coda trial bow that I have received has not been pre-rosined, and it has made it harder for me to really try them as I am fighting the hair compared to my own bow.
@@AW-tp1yl Some luthiers pre-rosin new bow hair before it goes home to the customer. When I bought a new wood bow several years ago, the luthier had pre-rosined the hair. Whenever the luthier rehairs my bow, he pre-rosins the hair. Then I just apply rosin normally, and I do not have to do 50 swipes or however many it is to get a non-pre-rosined bow to play well. Btw one of my coda bows I tried did arrive pre-rosined. I believe it was the Marquis Tuxedo. All the others I tried were not pre-rosined.
To the photographer here: record the sound with an extra microphone and mix everything together afterwards. Do NOT record the spoken parts with the same microphone that you seem to do. Esther is worth better than that!
The funny thing is she’s probably the photographer here and she prolly didn’t think about it, but She should take the the suggestion, I was wondering if other RU-vid violinists did that or not, now it makes sense lol
I’m a violin beginner your play so good and you are very beautiful, I feel once you started playing your face expressions are very tense, makes me feel a little tense to watch. You are very beautiful once you only relaxed and talking to the camera
BOW ? Where are the arrows? ...What a beautiful woman! So do you think she would pose for me { I am an artist }. I mean full clothed and her mom could be in the room .....I am almost 75 years...so hey what do you think...... comment people should I ask her agent? Mom? Dad? I do not want anyone to get the wrong idea. I am so old that I have lot count of my wrinkles .What does anyone think>
Not the greatest review. Go over the weight of the bow, its balance, how straight it is, and try different bowing techniques and comment on how it reacts. Record your first impression and then come back to us a few weeks later with how it's felt. Then put both those opinion videos together as one.
You have said in other videos that you do not like or do not play with a shoulder rest, but good grief, your collar bone has a nasty bruise just from those few minutes of playing. Have you considered a cloth at least as some sort of cushion between the violin and your collar bone? I can see a mark on your collar bone while you are unboxing the bow, but wow! Just a few minutes of playing and it looks much worse. I'm sure you are used to it by now, playing for so many years, but it looks painful.
