Opinion: Mass discardment of cheap bows
2024-07-01T08:05:00
Cellist Andrew Janss was shocked to discover the phenomenon of the cheap, single-use bow: one that costs more to rehair than replace. He calls for a change in manufacturers’ attitudes to such waste
The first time I saw a violin-bow graveyard was a jarring experience: a pile of roughly 500 bows of various sizes mangled together in a set of trash cans, waiting for a trip to the landfill site. For a professional cellist, the sight of even one broken bow is usually enough to make me taste bile in the back of my throat…