violin bow
Dominique Peccatte
built in Paris in ±1850
A violin bow, made by Dominique Peccatte in Paris in the mid-19th century. The bow is part of the “Tettelaar Collection.”
History of this instrument
Starting in 2018, the Musical Instrument Fund received this Dominique Peccatte violin bow on loan from a private individual. The bow is part of a collection of five impressive bows and one valuable violin belonging to Ms. Tettelaar, a former violinist with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra and the Radio Philharmonic Orchestra. After her death in 2022, the fund purchased the collection from her heirs. Carla Leurs has been caring for the bow since it was added to the fund’s collection.
About the builder Dominique Peccatte
The town of Mirecourt was the cradle of French violin-making and bow-making. As early as 1735, there were about thirty violin makers and bow makers working there. That number had risen to two hundred by the time Dominique Peccatte was...