Yita Music

[stan haskins]

Point well taken, Ken.

[tim givens]

i picked up a carbon fiber bow from yita just for the hell of it, but i really love it. for $$ it's a great deal. grabs the note very nicely and quickly. on the downside it is very bright sounding.

[Katie Long]

I know that my teacher Peter Buckoke loves his snakewood one...but it is the second one he has had from them as the first one warped the wrong way. It's a good bow from what he says and I would imagine he's seen a lot of bows. He recommended them to one of my colleagues who is looking for a new stick so he must think something of them, although one does wonder if the one that he sent back has just been put straight back up on ebay...!

[davidseidel]

Did Peter Buckoke buy a baroque bow or which one in snakewood?

[Katie Long]

It's a modern snakewood bow, french style. I'll ask him to tell me some more about it.

[Katie Long]

I had a go with the snakewood bow yesterday in my lesson... it's very long and quite flat, eg there isn't much camber in it, and the tip is fairly flat too. I tend to like a bow with a fair amount of camber so it didn't suit me very well. Nice and long though, and the balance is good. It's probably a matter of personal preference, there are some bassists I know who play with almost a straight stick with no camber at all. Peter really likes it though and it sounds ace with his bass. He actually reccommended that I buy one of the carbon french bows with silver tips that they are selling as I'm in the market for a spare bow (having totally destroyed my other one, whoops) so he obviously trusts them. They have good ebay reviews as well.

[Katie Long]

While I'm here, those aren't baroque bows. They are gamba bows. I have a baroque bow and it's nothing like them. Plus I think the bend of the stick is wrong...? Or maybe its just a later bow. I have a 'Baroque' bow from Roger Doe and it's very different to what YitaMusic are selling.