instrument
violin bow
Karel van der Meer
built in The Hague in ± 1910
A violin bow from the workshop of Karel van der Meer (without a brand mark). Octagonal shaft, ebony frog, silver mountings.
Current player
Talent
Lotti Peverelli
plays a
violin
from Guust François
from Guust François
History of this instrument
1993 was the year in which the Music Instrument Fund purchased this bow from a private individual. Ian van den Berk, Ruth Houtman-Stranders, Floris Faber, and Isobel Warmelink preceded Lotti Peverelli in playing this violin bow from The Hague.
About the builder Karel van der Meer
It is thanks to Karel van der Meer that the somewhat stagnant Dutch violin-making world was able to revive itself at the end of the nineteenth century. He made very few instruments himself; his contribution lies more in the fact that he...