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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
  1. 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.

December 2017

114 Exceptional Children Violin Bows from the 19th, 20th and 21st Century. Edition of 250 copies: 2 time 2.80 meter unfolded!

Here the presentation in Cremona at the Cuvée Darling Expo at the San Vitale 2017.

Here the presentation at the at theParis  Expo Bellevilloise 2017.

Cuvée Darling Cremona 2017

Now Finally printed!

The 1st Darling Bow Making Competition Amsterdam 2016

78 Bows competed: 33 violin bows, 23 viola bows, 22 cello bows

ALL photographed during the competition and presented here!

The reference of the amazing standard of bow making in 2016.

Hardcover, edition of 100 copies:

Softcover, edition of 250 copies:


  Cuvée SINFONIMA DARLING, Frankfurt 2017

Hardcover, edition of 100 copies:

19th Century Berlin Bows, edited by Mathias Wohlleber, Berlin

Edition of 250 copies: