HI everyone! I was just browsing this website a few days ago, and they sell very low price instruments etc, but when I saw this bow advertised as being made from pernambuco and being sold for £29.99, I had to stop and wonder how it can possibly be so cheap, since any other pernambuco bow seems to cost over £80. I just wondered if anybody had any opinions on this?

http://www.gear4music.com/String_Instrumen...sizesefv_5.html

Thanks for your help,
FluteDiva

A rehair would cost more than that!!!

Seems too good to be true. I wonder of they would let you have one to try first

Can someone check if this is for real?

I bought a pernambuco bow about 6 weeks ago. It cost £67.50. I though I got a good deal!

If you are wondering I bought my bow of the stringmail website.

Alex

The benefits of pernambuco as a material only become clear in bows made by highly skilled craftsmen. At the level of workmanship seen in these cheap bows, the type of material (pernambuco, brazil wood, fibre glass, whatever) used is irrelevant. If they are made of pernambuco of any quality then they are a waste of a precious resource.

The bottom line is, Chinese makers will pretty much tell you what you want to hear, that seems to be how they do business. Chances are it's actually Manilkara Kauki, that seems to be "Chinese pernambuco". We would pay more than that as direct improters to get a pernambuco bow from our China contact, but then of course a bigger company can get a much better price than we could.