Instrument Sale
Switzerland
Posted: 09 Dec 2025
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Cello Bow:
Reliable, ca. 55-year-old, fully silver-mounted Karl Höfner cello bow
Price: CHF 1.900.‒
This solid and lively bow in a remarkably good state of preservation is ideal for an intermediate/advanced cellist looking for a versatile bow of German origin.
According to one of HÖFNER's senior bow makers, this bow was made between 1970 and 1975, thus making it a specimen of rare age of that workshop that was founded in 1887.
Specifications:
■ model/class: «master bows» ‒ HÖFNER's topmost category, recognisable by the three asterisks behind the brand stamp
■ wood: premium pernambuco, octagonally shaped
■ frog: ebony
■ eye: silver/mother-of-pearl Parisian eye
■ adjuster: silver/ebony/pearl; 2 rings on the button, 8 inlaid pearl eyes
■ thumb leather: goatskin
■ weight: 80.5 grams
■ center of mass (= balance point): 9.6 inches
■ overall length: 717 mm
■ length of stick: 700 mm
Check out my other cello bow listings:
■ 7/3 (Philipp Paul NÜRNBERGER, German & English texts)
■ 8/28 (Edwin Lothar HERRMANN & Friedrich "Fritz" MEINEL)
■ 10/3 (Richard Hermann PFRETZSCHNER)
According to one of HÖFNER's senior bow makers, this bow was made between 1970 and 1975, thus making it a specimen of rare age of that workshop that was founded in 1887.
Specifications:
■ model/class: «master bows» ‒ HÖFNER's topmost category, recognisable by the three asterisks behind the brand stamp
■ wood: premium pernambuco, octagonally shaped
■ frog: ebony
■ eye: silver/mother-of-pearl Parisian eye
■ adjuster: silver/ebony/pearl; 2 rings on the button, 8 inlaid pearl eyes
■ thumb leather: goatskin
■ weight: 80.5 grams
■ center of mass (= balance point): 9.6 inches
■ overall length: 717 mm
■ length of stick: 700 mm
Check out my other cello bow listings:
■ 7/3 (Philipp Paul NÜRNBERGER, German & English texts)
■ 8/28 (Edwin Lothar HERRMANN & Friedrich "Fritz" MEINEL)
■ 10/3 (Richard Hermann PFRETZSCHNER)
Certification: n/a
Seller:
Christian Oliver Lütolf
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