Viola Bow By Finkel Atelier Swiss.

FINKEL-WEIDHAAS bows have been on the international market for the last 130 years, since 1868.

Johannes S. Finkel, born in 1947 is the fourth generation of bowmakers of the Finkel-Weidhaas bowmakers dynasty. He was trained by his father, Siegfried Finkel, who moved from Markneukirchen to Switzerland in 1952. His great grandfather was Ewald Weidhaas (b 1869;d 1939). His grandfather Paul Weidhaas, who studied with Bausch (undoubtedly after A.E. Prager) and with V. Fetique in Paris and then worked on his own in Markneukirchen.

After the Apprentisceship with his father he has worked for a number of years at J.&A. Beare in London, Hans Weisshaar in Los Angeles and William Moennig & Son in Philadelphia, before returning to Switzerland in 1975. On his father's retirement he took over the family workshop, and now works together with three more bowmakers, W. Ernst, M. Fischer and J.M. Luthi, in Schwanden/Brienz.

The round stick of pernambuco of a red-brown colour, plain silver mounted ebony, plain silver adjuster