Faced with Brazil, Europe performs its half to save lots of pernambuco bows | EUROtoday

Dn the shadow of the COP30 in Belém on the local weather, one other worldwide convention opens on November 24 in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. The 20^e Conference of the Parties to Cites (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) may seal the destiny of a two-century-old craft: bow making. European diplomacy is on alert however the recreation is shut.

At stake is pernambuco, a blood-red Brazilian essence important for making violin bows. Dense, resilient, able to growing the sound of a violin by 30 to 40% within the palms of knowledgeable, this wooden has no equal. Carbon bows would not have the identical acoustic properties in accordance with musicians. The fashionable bow, invented…