cello bow
Luis Emilio Rodriguez Carrington
built in The Hague in 2020
A Baroque cello bow, made by Luis Emilio Rodriguez Carrington in The Hague, 2020. Snakewood shaft and clip-in ferrule, mammoth ivory tip.
History of this instrument
In 2020, the Musical Instrument Fund commissioned Luis Emilio Rodriguez Carrington to build this Baroque cello bow. The Van Lennep-Bartel Fund made the financing of this new-build project possible. Diego Pineda was the first cellist to play the bow. After him, Valentijn Jeukendrup and Matilda Adamus were the successive players of the Hague bow.
About the builder Luis Emilio Rodriguez Carrington
Luis Emilio Rodriguez Carrington was born in 1955 in Mexico City. He has been making bows since 1976. In 1978, he moved to England. In 1980, he moved to the Netherlands, where he studied at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. He...