A gold mounted violin bow by Marie Chastagnol, 60.4 grams made in Quimper, France, in 2023. Nimble, with agility, smooth response at the lower half. Medium firm suppleness. The bow was exhibited in the Inaugural Bay Fine Strings Contemporary Violin Makers Exhibition and Concert April 29th 2023, and a copy of the published catalog will be included with this bow.
About Marie Chastagnol
Marie Chastagnol attended the National School of Violin-making in Mirecourt, France, for three years. While studying there, she spent a few weeks in the workshop of Jean-Frédéric Schmitt in Lyon 
and with Arthur Dubroca and Alexandre Aumont in Paris. She made there her first steps in bow-making. 
After passing her degree at Mirecourt in 2007, she worked for four years in the workshop of Yannick Le Canu in Lille. After that, she was employed as a bow-maker by Olivier Pérot in his Montreal, Canada, workshop. In 2013, she started to work with Georges Tépho, in Quimper, France. 
In 2017, she decided to create her own workshop in Quimper when Georges Tépho moved to Paris. She carries on working with bow-makers like Eric Fournier and Emmanuel Bégin to refine her technique.
In November 2018, Marie got a Certificate of Merit for workmanship for a violin bow at the Violin Society of America Competition in Cleveland. 
She is member of the new french contemporary violin & bow-making group in Paris : the Collectif de 
Lutherie et d'Archèterie Comtemporaines, and is represented by Bay Fine Strings in the United States.