PAUL MARTIN SIEFRIED
US bow maker Paul Martin Siefried has died aged 69. Born in January 1950 and raised in southern California, Siefried began his career as a maker of leather goods before being taken on, aged 20, at Cremona Violin Makers & Dealers in San Francisco. Having learnt the fundamentals of bow making there, he resigned and moved to a small community where he studied bow making intensively.