Yita Music

[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.

[Katie Long]

Hi guys, my new carbon fibre bow arrived today. It's a lovely bow actually, it's nicely finished. Doesn't draw the sound as nicely as my pernambuco bow, of course, but still its a good solid sound with a nice amount of grab on the bottom two strings of my modern bass (helicore orchestrals at the moment). I've been switching between the two in my rehearsal this afternoon and it is doing fairly well although the white hair it came with is really not to my liking and very cheap I think! Planning to get it rehaired with some black hair and then I'll let you know what that does to it. As a second bow, it's really good for the money so far.