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Double Bass The Best Quiver?
- Thread starter MisterFred
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Okay, a challenge for all you leather fetishists 
- does anyone make bow quivers that are worth using and NOT made of leather? i.e. canvas or synthetic materials?
- does anyone make bow quivers that are worth using and NOT made of leather? i.e. canvas or synthetic materials?Sorry this is not a direct reply to the non-leather question but I am just catching up on this thread for the first time.
I am +1 vote for Joe-At-Gage's quivers. They are awesome. I have one on each of two basses and have not noticed an egregious loss of tone. For one thing, I tie it fairly loosely to the tailpiece with the leather thongs so that the mass of the entire quiver isn't so directly coupled to the tailpiece and hopefully lessens any dampening.
So that brings up some other thoughts...so when I lay my bass down, the quiver can flop over the tailpiece a like 90-120 degrees so I DO NOT STORE by bow in the quiver when I lay the bass down, I put the bow under the E string. I learned the hard way when bow hairs got caught on the wings of my bridge and were being unceremoniously plucked out of the bow! ouch.
Also be advised as to the inside bottom of the quiver as some kinds have little nooks or traps for the tip of your bow and I know at least one person who lost the decorative tip of their bow when it was jammed into the bowels of the quiver.
So back to Joe's quivers. They are heavy but the do have a wire around the opening so they are always open. I would much rather store my bow there during a long pizz movement then fight my stand partner for the little space on the music stand to lay down the bow. I have seen bows dropped doing that...no thanks!
My last thought is the the cloth quiver in the John Edwards photo looks like some sort of bass-ostomy!
Steve
I am +1 vote for Joe-At-Gage's quivers. They are awesome. I have one on each of two basses and have not noticed an egregious loss of tone. For one thing, I tie it fairly loosely to the tailpiece with the leather thongs so that the mass of the entire quiver isn't so directly coupled to the tailpiece and hopefully lessens any dampening.
So that brings up some other thoughts...so when I lay my bass down, the quiver can flop over the tailpiece a like 90-120 degrees so I DO NOT STORE by bow in the quiver when I lay the bass down, I put the bow under the E string. I learned the hard way when bow hairs got caught on the wings of my bridge and were being unceremoniously plucked out of the bow! ouch.
Also be advised as to the inside bottom of the quiver as some kinds have little nooks or traps for the tip of your bow and I know at least one person who lost the decorative tip of their bow when it was jammed into the bowels of the quiver.
So back to Joe's quivers. They are heavy but the do have a wire around the opening so they are always open. I would much rather store my bow there during a long pizz movement then fight my stand partner for the little space on the music stand to lay down the bow. I have seen bows dropped doing that...no thanks!
My last thought is the the cloth quiver in the John Edwards photo looks like some sort of bass-ostomy!
Steve
I like the idea of a non-leather quiver.
Has anybody successfully made their own out of some sort of cloth?
Has anybody successfully made their own out of some sort of cloth?
reunion blues makes some really nice quivers they don't rattle at all and the leather is really soft
Now, that sounds like the best idea yet. I'm thinking of a simple 3"-diameter tube made of ABS, perhaps, attached to the music stand with a couple of hose clamps--all available from the local hardware store. With both end caps on, it would double as a hard-shell bow case.
I'm a fan of the Kolstein quiver. It's much more rigid than the Reunion Blues and the way I tied it, it doesn't move when I put the bass down on its side. I went without it for a while when I wasn't doing any arco (and was worried about it dampening the sound) but I haven't noticed any appreciable difference after putting it back on.
