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Antal Klier

violin bow c. 1910
2015. október 2.

This violin bow was made by Antal Klier in Szeged around 1910. This unique piece of work was part of the Géza Molnár Collection.

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Klier Antal hegedűvonó

The model of the head is unique, distinctive and has a trapezoid shape. The throat starts off straight from the head-plate and turns into the stick with a relatively small radius. The arching starts with a narrow curve on the crown then runs along the ridge almost straight until the base of the nose where it suddenly turns into the relatively long nose.

Klier Antal hegedűvonó

The annual rings of the wood can be seen clearly on the head from backview.

Klier Antal hegedűvonó

Head topview.

Klier Antal hegedűvonó

The ebony frog with silver settings sideview. The throat is open, the ferrule is high, the thumb piece is thin and rounded.

Klier Antal hegedűvonó

The silver heel is made of one piece, the lower part is almost square shaped and pinned with nickel silver at two places. The ferrule has an arching from underside view. The slide is silver mounted. The inside of the button rings are round, the eye is relatively small.

Klier Antal hegedűvonó

Frog from ferrule.

Klier Antal hegedűvonó

The underslide is pinned with nickel silver. There is a Roman numeral, a ’IV’ sign above the thumb-piece.

Klier Antal hegedűvonó

End of stick, frog and adjuster topview. The frog is narrowing gradually backwards.

Klier Antal hegedűvonó

The special Parisian eye makes the frog very interesting — the pearl eye and the ebony ring made of the ebony of the frog is surrounded by a very thin silver ring. The master drilled the place of the pearl eye and the ring at the same time with a special drill, the ring was only bent, it is not soldered.

Klier Antal hegedűvonó

The adjuster consists of three parts. There are two round silver button rings sitting on an ebony core. Only the back ring is pinned with nickel silver.

Klier Antal hegedűvonó

End of stick, mortice and nipple. Similar to the slide we can see a Roman numeral, the 'IV' sign here. These signs are used when masters work on more than one bow at a time. Each stick has it's own frog, in order not to confuse the bows they use these signs.

Klier Antal hegedűvonó

The stamp of Antal Klier can be seen here. On one side of the stick he burnt the letters of his name, KLIER, letter by letter, on the back the word SZEGED can be found.

Klier Antal hegedűvonó

One of the hits — we can see about a dozen hits on the stick. (We call 'hit' one of the types of damage typical of the wood when the fibers are pressed and torn. It happens when the tree is felled onto another log or cliff.) If we bend a stick with heat it immediately cracks where the wood is hit. In my experience a stick with a hit can be bent without cracking if the wood is very fresh. At the end of the 1990s I saw one of the bows of Vadim Repin made by Nicolas Maire with so many hits. This bow type is very rare, since it is not common to use such wood for bow making. However, since usually the best wood is generally hit, sometimes masters try working with this wood.

Klier Antal hegedűvonó

Another hit.

This bow was donated by Pál Rácz. Thank you very much!

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