27 Mai 2021

For the loyal fans: Finally another book by Darling Publications!

Coming soon!

Andy Lim was not lazy during the Corona year 2020-2021

Andy lost 16 (!) kilos in a slow but steady diet since the last Cremona Expo 2019. So what has this to do with the „New Books“?. Nothing, but still news being not lazy…

2. Anton Somers, the violinmaker from Antwerp (Belgium, the country squeezed between The Netherlands and France) was not lazy either and created an Quartet. And what for a Quartet! A quartet with whalebone purflings. Of course, fully CITES certified and probably the only contemporary maker since very, very long to be able or asked to do that! So, what has this to do with “New Books“? A lot! Because Darling Publications is proud to present this most beautiful Quartet of Instruments of the Violin Family in the new publication:

ANTON SOMERS

Violinmaker in Antwerp. 22 instruments 2012-2021.

It is only the 2nd Monography of a living Violinmaker since in 2011 Nicolas Gilles inspired the publisher to make the first. So Nicolas Gilles, now matured as Violinmaker and even in Personal Appearance for those who knows him bit longer wrote the preface and will be personally at the Book launch together with the Quartet 18 June in Brussels at Atelier Flagey. Soon printing, so here a peep and glimpse at the proof before it gets serious.

1 August 2020

At the request of the interested:

List of the presented bows in the Cologne Bow Quarterly

Pre-Edition2018 and 2019 I-IV

Adam JD	violin	SE	2018 Pre Edition
Andersen, Morgan	cello	GE	2019 Vol 3
Bässler, Richard	violin	SE	2019 Vol 3
Bausch, Junior	cello	SE	2019 Vol 4
Bausch, Senior	violin	SE	2019 Vol 2
Bazin C.N.	cello	SE	2019 Vol I
Bazin C.N.	viola Lens	SE	2019 Vol 4
Bazin, Louis	violin	NSE	2019 Vol 2
Bultitude, A.R.	cello	SE	2018 Pre Edition
Chardon, Andre	cello	SE	2018 Pre Edition
Clutterbuck, John	viola	SE	2019 Vol 2
Colas, Prosper	viola	SE	2019 Vol 3
Dodd, John Kew	cello	Ivory	2019 Vol I
Dodd, Edward III+W. Tubbs	viola	SE	2019 Vol 2
Dodd, John Kew	cello	Ivory	2019 Vol 3
Dölling Bernd	violin	SI	2019 Vol 4
Engleder. Andreas	violin	SE	2019 Vol I
Espey, Charles	cello	SE	2019 Vol I
Eury, Jacob	cello	SE	2019 Vol I
Fournier, Eric	violin		2019 Vol 2
Gaulard, Jude	cello	SE	2019 Vol 3
Gillet, Louis	viola	SE	2019 Vol 2
Grimm, Carl George	violin	SE	2018 Pre Edition
Grimm, Carl George	cello	SE	2019 Vol 4
Heberlein, Paul Richard	violin	SE	2019 Vol 4
Heischkel, Albert	Violin	SE	2019 Vol 4
Herrmann, Edwin	violin	SE	2019 Vol 2
Höllinger, Hans	violin	SE	2019 Vol 3
Hoyer „Pariser“ Otto A	viola	SE	2019 Vol I
Hums, Albin	violin	GE	2019 Vol 4
Husson, Charles Claude	violin 3/4	NE	2019 Vol 2
Johansson, Ulf	cello	SE	2019 Vol I
Kittel, Nikolai	cello	SE	2019 Vol 2
Kittel, Nikolai	violin	GT	2018 Pre Edition
Knopf, Wilhelm	violin	SE	2019 Vol I
Knopf, Carl Heinrich	violin	NSE	2018 Pre Edition
Knopf, Wilhelm	violin	GE	2019 Vol 3
Kovacs, Tibor	violin	SE	2019 Vol 4
Laberte, Marc	alto	SE	2019 Vol 4
Lagarde, A	violin open	E	2019 Vol 4
Lamy Pere	viola	SE	2019 Vol I
Lamy Pere	cello	SE	2019 Vol 3
Lamy Pere	violin	SE	2019 Vol 4
Le Canu, Yannick	cello	GI	2019 Vol I
Leahy, Gary	violin	GT	2019 Vol 2
Leeson, Albert	alto	GT	2018 Pre Edition
Leicht, R. Herbert	Violin	SE	2019 Vol 2
Löscher, Dirk	viola	GI	2019 Vol 3
Lotte, François	cello	NS	2019 Vol 3
Lucke, Tino	violin	SE	2019 Vol 2
Lupot II, François	violin	SE	2018 Pre Edition
Maire, N	violin	NE	2018 Pre Edition
Martin, JJ	viola	SE	2019 Vol I
Martin, JJ	cello	SE	2019 Vol 3
Martinie-Pasquier-Bigot	cello	GE	2018 Pre Edition
Meinel, Fritz	alto	SE	2019 Vol 4
Mohr, Peter	violin	GE	2018 Pre Edition
Morizot Freres	cello	SE	2019 Vol 3
Morizot Père	cello	GT	2019 Vol I
Morrow, Robert	viola	GE	2019 Vol 4
Nürnberger, Franz Albert II	cello	SE	2019 Vol I
Nürnberger Süss	violin Josef	GE	2018 Pre Edition
Nürnberger, Adolf	violin	SE	2019 Vol 3
Nürnberger, C u K	violin	SE	2019 Vol 2
Nürnberger, Christoph	cello	SE	2018 Pre Edition
Ouchard Bernard	violin	GE	2019 Vol I
Ouchard,Emile Auguste	Emile A.	1900- 1969	2019 Vol 2
Pajeot Louis Simon	violin	SI	2019 Vol 2
Pajeot, Etienne	cello	SE	2018 Pre Edition
Paulus, Günter Alfred	violin	GT	2019 Vol I
Paulus, Otto	violin	SE	2019 Vol 3
Peccatte, Dominique	cello	SE	2019 Vol I
Peccatte, Dominique	cello	SE	2019 Vol 4
Peccatte, Dominique	violin	SE	2018 Pre Edition
Peccatte, Francois	cello	SE	2019 Vol 2
Penzel, E.M.	violin	SE	2018 Pre Edition
Penzel, E.M.	cello	SE	2019 Vol 3
Pfretzschner, H.R.	cello	GE	2019 Vol I
Pfretzschner Bertold	violin	SE	2019 Vol 4
Pfretzschner, H.R.	Cello	SE	2019 Vol 2
Pfretzschner, H.R.	violin	SE	2018 Pre Edition
Piernot, Marie Louis	cello	SE	2019 Vol 4
Prager, August Edwin	violin	SE	2019 Vol I
Prager, Gustav	Violin	SE	2019 Vol 3
Prell, Hermann	cello	SE	2019 Vol 4
Raffin, JF	cello	GI	2019 Vol 3
Rau, August	violin	GI	2018 Pre Edition
Renz, Gerh. Walt	violin		2019 Vol 2
Retford, W. C.	violin	SE	2019 Vol I
Richaume, Andre	violin	SE	2019 Vol 2
Sartory, Eugène Nicolas	violin	SE	2019 Vol I
Sartory, Eugène Nicolas	cello	SE	2019 Vol 4
Sartory, Eugène Nicolas	viola	SE	2018 Pre Edition
Sasano, Mitsuaki	viola	GE	2018 Pre Edition
Schüller, Otto	violin		2019 Vol 2
Schuster, Adolf Curt	Cello	NSE	2019 Vol 4
Schuster, Gotthard	cello	SE	2019 Vol 3
Schwartz, Strasbourg	violin	SE	2019 Vol 3
Simon, Pierre	violin	SE	2018 Pre Edition
Simon, Jean			2019 Vol 2
Stöß, Arnold	violin	GE	2019 Vol 3
Süß, Joh. Christian	cello	SE	2019 Vol 3
Taylor, David William	violin	GE	2019 Vol 3
Taylor, Malcolm M.	Viola	GT	2019 Vol 4
Thomassin, Claude	violin	SE	2019 Vol I
Thomassin, Claude	violin	GE	2019 Vol 4
Thomassin, Victor	viola	SE	2019 Vol 3
Thumhart München	violin	SE	2019 Vol 2
Tourte, FX	cello	SE	2019 Vol 3
Tubbs, James	viola	GE	2019 Vol I
Tubbs, James	violin	GE	2018 Pre Edition
Tubbs, James	violin	SE	2019 Vol 4
Vigneron Jos. Arthur	violin	SE	2019 Vol 2
Voirin FN	violin	SE	2018 Pre Edition
Voirin, FN	cello	SE	2019 Vol 2
Watson, William	violin	GE	2019 Vol 4
Weidhaas, Paul	cello	SE	2018 Pre Edition
Winkler, Franz	violin	SE	2019 Vol 4
Wunderlich, Friedrich	cello	SE	2019 Vol I
Zapf, H. Walter	violin	SE	2019 Vol I

17 March 2020

The new book with 99+1 historical German bows (by 100 different makers, ALL stamped! but only one stamp per maker), originally planned to be presented at the Frankfurt Cuvée Darling Exhibition 2020, where the 100 bows were to be exhibited, but now we know why it is important to make books as the Exhibition cannot take place because of the Corona shut-down. But books cannot be shut down…

Edited by Mathias Wohlleber from Berlin.

The finished book in 10 days, but here a sneak peak at the control prints:

15 March 2020

The Leporello with 18 Exceptional Contemporary Tortoise Shell (all material fully CITES certified!) bows has been printed. When the book is bound we will present it here in full glory!

September 2019

After some work (Understatement!) the Cologne Bow Quarterly Vol One-Four was published in the Cuvée Darling Cremona 2019 exhibition. Here the 4 colourful Softcover Editions (250 copies) and the 4 Hardcover Editions in a most rare collectable production of 50 sets of 4.

April 2019

As the books are on a Macbook Pro of 17 inch, they are larger than one thinks. Some think they are on a 13 inch laptop!

The substantial and heavy 216 pages book of the 3rd and final Sinfonima Cuvée Darling 2019 Exhibition. Only 250 Softcover and 100 Hardcover were produced, which will make it a rare collector´s item soon. 45 bow makers and 19 violin makers (not to forget 1 guitar maker!) with hundreds of bows, instruments and pictures of the makers. Additional documentation of the 2017 and 2018 Frankfurt Expositions. As most copies are now in hands of the exhibitors, there are just few copies left over.

September 2018

Another successful Cuvée Darling Expo in Cremona on 28 and 29 September 2018!

The Presentation of the new Series „The Cologne Bow Quarterly“ was more than successful too! The 30 pre-copies already all sold. The Strad magazine will soon offer them too, so please write to them for ordering this little gem from Darling Publications. Be fast, as they will only get 25 copies. Holfter GmbH gets 25 copies as well. Total edition of only 250 softcover copies. Only 50 de Luxe copies in Hardcover binding.