_ wrote:

How much is he going to sell these bows for? My sister told me how much
her hi-end bow was once and it made my eyes open *quite* wide.

I don't know, but they will not be cheap. My customer has
dome something really new. The bow is fully instrumented.
Pressure transducers on the string can resolve if the bow is
canted, and where the bow string is in contact with the
violin strings. In addition it carries 3 axis accelerometers
that resolve the actual 3D motion of the bow in real time.
Don't know what software he's doing this with, but he has a
solids model of the bow, hooking up the bow to the computer,
you can wave the bow around and watch the solids model
perfectly mimic the real bow.

I'm looking forward to seeing this thing in action in
mid-January, I'll better understand exactly what it can do.
But apparently through software there are a ton of things
you can do to the sound based on what the bow is doing.

I've been working with him on the frog adapters (where they
get these strange names I don't know), they are aluminum and
milled to relieve as much mass as we dare. There's going to
be three models, violin, cello, and bass.

He was in Ireland a couple weeks ago, some world class
violinist from Finland played with it and pronounced it
'historic'. It's first public performance debut is coming up
in San Diego in a few weeks or so, and it's also going to be
featured at some supercomputer convention.

I am playing a minute part in this, but it's neat to be part
of something that's really ground breaking. I'll ask him if
he has a web page on it yet and if I can post a link to it.


Jon