Ashmead Bows

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Cello/Bass Viol

The following photos are a small sampling of the models available. I make over 60 different models, many which have never been photographed. If you are interested in a bow that is not represented in the photos please make a note on the Order Inquiry form. All of the ivory used on these bows is fossil ivory, mostly mammoth or Mastodon, with a few buttons out of fossil walrus. I do not use any elephant ivory!

Model EM Model EM
Snakewood with reeded grip, ivory frog and button 76-82 grams [Model EM]
Model EI (top), EH (bottom) Model EI (top), EH (bottom)
Top: Snakewood double fluted,ivory or bone frog and button 80 grams [Model EI]
Bottom: Snakewood fluted, ivory frog and button 79-83 grams [Model EH]
Model EK Model EK
Snakewood fluted, ivory frog and button 78-82 grams [Model EK]
Model ED Model ED
Ironwood or snakewood fluted, ironwood or ivory frog ivory button
75-81 grams [Model ED]
Model EJ Model EJ
Snakewood double fluted and round, ivory frog and button
69-74 grams [Model EJ]

Bow Styles

  • Baroque – Violin
    • Cello/Bass Viol
    • Double Bass
  • Transitional – Violin
    • Viola
    • Cello
    • Double Bass
  • Modern – Violin
    • Cello

Ralph Ashmead

Ralph Ashmead

Praise for Ashmead Bows

I had the good fortune this weekend to be playing with Elin Gabrielssohn who had two bows of yours on trial. She has, as you will probably know by now, decided to buy one of them: I should like to buy the other. I had, of course, seen a lot
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I had the good fortune this weekend to be playing with Elin Gabrielssohn who had two bows of yours on trial. She has, as you will probably know by now, decided to buy one of them: I should like to buy the other.
I had, of course, seen a lot of your work – Enrico Onofri, Claudia Combs, Stanley Ritchie and others all use your bows…, but as I have always been happy with my Italian Ghirardelli, I never really considered looking for anything else.
I played for 20 minutes with the bow that Elin ‘didn’t’ want and I was taken.

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Nick Robinson

Contact

Ralph Ashmead
P.O. Box 1411
Tuolumne, CA 95379
1.209.928.1272
ashmead@frontiernet.net

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