Nicolas Remy Maire
A rare experimental self-rehairing bow by NICOLAS REMY MAIRE. The self-rehairing bow (meaning the musician could rehair their own bow) was a good idea in theory, but didn’t catch on. Most of the surviving examples have been retrofitted to the standard configuration. Many other bow makers took over this new idea, but only for a few years. Other French bow makers who used this system inculded Pierre Simon, Jean Marie Persoit, Nicolas Maline and Dominique Peccatte, mostly in the time when they worked for Jean Baptiste Vuillaume. A bow identical to the one shown here, can be found in the book “ L’ Archet” by Millant & Raffin.