Arcus bows, made in Germany, are top quality bows made from high density carbon fibre.

Bernd Müsing, founded the company in 1999 in his quest to find the perfect bow and he soon realised that only a tube made from high-density carbon fibre could provide significant improvements over pernambuco wood. Other simpler carbon bows did not offer the right elasticity and had too much high frequency damping, drawing a dull sound lacking badly in overtones.

But what about the sound of Arcus bows?

Most people think of wood as an especially resonant material – which it isn’t. It was the only light construction material available during the time that stringed instruments were developed. Carbon fibre components can, in fact, have much better resonance characteristics than wooden parts – if designed and made properly. Low priced carbon bows are made with more epoxy resin content then carbon fibres. The epoxy acts like a high frequency filter which renders the sound of such bows rather dull, lacking badly in overtones.

Arcus bows on the other hand contain only half as much epoxy. In combination with the hollowness of the stick this results in a resonance quality that surpasses even the finest pernambuco wood.

The End of Fatigue and Pain in Shoulder, Hand and Arm

Within the first year of Arcus bow production several musicians discovered that the Arcus bows apparently solved ergonomic problems including pain and fatigue in the thumb, wrist, elbow and shoulder of the bow arm. It was discovered that the 50Hz low frequency vibration of traditional bows are the cause of some of these problems. The reduced weight and increased stiffness of the Arcus sticks shift their fundamental resonance to 100 Hz (one octave higher), which seems to be well outside the dangerous frequency range.

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