Gold mount bow by John Alfred Bolander II

$5,000.00

Antique viola bow by American bowmaker John Alfred Bolander II

Description

Born in Chicago in 1893, John Alfred Bolander II was a bowmaker that primarily operated in San Jose, then eventually Santa Cruz, California. In 1943 he learned bowmaking under luthier Alfred Lanini until 1946, where the two started a business together. In 1978, he moved to Santa Cruz.

This gold mount viola bow has a hatchet style head, with a firm stick and eyeless ebony frog. This viola bow was welled played over its lifetime showing decades of wear near the slide track and button.

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