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Creations and copies    

 Bois d'Harmonie Pegs

     
CHF: French   CHS : Strad  CHB: Baroque   CHC : Heart 


CHFO: French Olivette
 
Technical note
All Pegs exist in 3 species of wood : genuine Boxwood, Rosewood and Ebony.
The decorative rings and buttons can be in Ebony or in Ivory
(mammoth's fossil, authorised material)
Olivettes are gold plated. Maximum diameter of the Pegs:
Violin 8,6mm or 11/32"; Viola 9.4mm or 3/8" ; Cello 13.8 mm. Or 35/64"
The Standard modern cone
Bois d'Harmonie Models
Simple without tuners

CH : Hill
  
CF : French
 In Ebony, Rosewood, Boxwood or Pernambucco.
The Hill model is one of English tradition, with a centre ridge.
The French model , rounder and more open is one of Mirecourt.

Harmonie :   with composite fine tuners.

HV : Harmonie violin
 
HC : Harmonie cello
Ebony, French model only, standard length, and 4 composite fine tuners .

Bois d'harmonie + Tun

CCHA : Cello Hill Boxwood
 
CVFA : Violin French Boxwood
With 4 fine tuners: it's the same thing with the following options:
Choice of WOODS : genuine Boxwood, Rosewood, Ebony or Pernambuco
Choice of SHAPES : Hill or French.
Choice of LENGTH of the most adapted tailpiece to the instrument.
Violin : 108;112 mm Viola : 125;130;135 mm Cello : 200;220;235;250 mm

Français Buis Violon  Single tuner
A fine wood tailpiece, with an extra-light composite fine tuner, wich does not change the neck projection.

 

 

Tailcord
Nine times as strong as steel wire, it does not stretch after it has been fitted, and so maintains the luthier’s original set-up.




Bois d'Harmonie Models.

MM: Morawetz
Chinrests pointed:
MV: Veronne

MG1 : Guarneri 1
   Chinrests bridged
       MP : PVS

MF : Flesch
 
MG2 : Guarneri 2
S
Technical note
The mecanism that fastens these chinrests comes in two models.
the Simple fitting, or the Hill fitting
H

Bois d'Harmonie Models
Classical endpin: PCF
It is pear shaped in wood,and is equiped with a very hard and sharp tungsten point. .The carbon rod, more ridgid, three times lighter than the steel one, lightens the weight of the cello by 130 grammes.
"Mirecourt"endpin: PM
"Baroque"endpin : PB
These two endpins have a maximum length of 41cm, 16.4" in two dismantible parts.
BCB Baroque Cello button
Technical notes
All the endpins are made in Boxwood, Ebony or Rosewood. The pear shaped endpin has a standard cone which measures 25mm or 1" maximum diameter.(27mm is available exceptionnally).

BS: Simple

B : Clou

BH : Hill

BD: of-center
Violin and Viola endpins
The basic model ( without nail BS)
The model with nail, Ebony (BE)or Ivory (BI)
The Hill model with a ring , Ebony (BHE)or Ivory (BHI)
They exist in Boxwood, Ebony, Rosewood and Pernambuco.
The of-center endpin (BD)

To order - Scultped parts (2)

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