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I am a beginner senior student at 73 and have been at it for nine months. I had the money for and purchased a five-star professional outfit. My violin was a handmade copy of a Stefan Petrov, and my strings are what I consider the best that money could buy, but my expensive Brazilian wood bow was holding me back. It felt too heavy, and cumbersom so I switched to a good carbon fiber bow, which helped a lot. However, it still wasn't meeting my expecitations and moving over the strings like I hoped. Okay, I'm not a patient person and want to sound at least like an advance beginner someday. I was getting frustrated. On line I found the Virgo's wood-covered carbon fiber bow. The reviews were mostly good, so I purchased it for what I considered a low price. I LOVE IT! It's light weight makes it nimble and my bow speed has increase substantially and most of all my confidence. The Gewa Bow gripm also helped. I would recommend it to any new students as well as older students who arn't patient like myself. It gave me the confidence I was looking for, and now my hours of practicing are paying off. Five Stars.

Excellent bow, best quality bow I’ve purchased so far to play my Cretan Lyra

I'm in love! This bow is so well balanced! I've never used a carbon fiber bow before but after playing this one, I'll not go back to wood bows. This is an amazingly responsive bow. I've tried every bowing I could think of from legato to spiccato and it provides a wonderful sound with total control in every one I have tried.

A good backup bow for advanced, and a decent primary for beginning to imtermediate. My first carbon fiber bow so I'm still getting used to it

I played violin for a few years in school and recently picked it back up after mostly playing piano the last few years. Needed a new bow but didn’t want to spend hundreds. This bow is great! Is it the best bow ever? No. But for the price it’s a steal. Nicely weighted for my play style and sounds a step up from the older bow I had.

I bought this bow to replace a brazilwood bow that was essentially falling apart (student outfit bows aren't worth it, kids).It's a very pretty bow. There's inlays around the screw as well, which I didn't see while looking at the pictures, so that was a nice surprise. The stick is round, not octagonal. Overall the aesthetics are great, maybe a little flashy for orchestral or chamber music.In terms of actual use, I love this bow. It's balanced nicely. It's weight is significant enough that you know it's there, but it's not heavy enough to be a hindrance. Staccato and ricochet are a breeze with this. My poor pinky can rest now instead of straining like before.The only gripe I have is that when I opened it up the plastic over the metal portion above the grip was extremely difficult to remove, and seemed to be put on so that the grip was glued over it. It was a pain to remove, and almost knocked the grip out of place. However, I'm not going to drop a star for this because I think it had more to do with the packaging than the product, and I can be unintentionally violent with packaging.Overall, this is an insanely good bow for the price. It's well-crafted, pleasing to the eye, and affordable. If you're looking for an upgrade from a student grade bow, this is an amazing option.

I was looking for a new bow so I could use the one that has less hair for shooting videos. I tested this out and as a professional violinist of 24 years, I wouldn't recommend it to a pro. If you're looking for something cheap that looks cool and will do the job though, I think this fits that ticket.The bow was overall pretty heavy compared to my others and had more of a closed/muted frequency response compared to other bows sounding brighter and more open.

So, I own one of the vingobow pernambuco sticks and that was my cheapest bow and my favorite. I own many bows and that was my favorite and it was $80. I own bows worth many times that bow.I thought, ok, if that how is amazing, let me go a step higher. Now this now is my absolute favorite now because it makes my fiddle sound simply beautiful.Don’t let the price deter you. Even thought it is substantially cheaper than other bows that cost exponentially more, these bows are wonderfully crafted. I could recommend it more.It really open the voice of my fiddle with such warmth and precision. It’s an anomaly, really. I don’t understand how they are so much cheaper but sound so much better than my much more expensive bows.You won’t be disappointed.