24''---40''fiddle bow hair

Company profile

Anping Dual-Horse Animal by products Factory located in Anping,China , where has more than 400 years history in animal hair processing. It is the biggest distribution center of animal tail hair in North China. There are over 50, 000 people involved in animal tail hair process and more than 1000 workshops. The annual export amount of animal tail hair products of Anping accounts for 40 percent of China and 70 percent of Hebei Province. 

  Our factory has 38 years history since established in 1978s  ,we are the third generation to do horse tail hair business. We mainly processes all kinds of horsehair tail, fiddle bow hair, horse mane, horse body hair,horsetail fabrics,goat hair,curled horse hair etc. We have 30 experienced workers; the annual output value is more than 10 million. With high-quality products and good reputation, our products widely sold throughout the country, and directly export to United States, Japan, Canada, France,United Kingdom,Pakistan, India and other countries.

  We can provide sewed horse hair for using in man-made horse ,Scotland sporran,decoration and so on. 

Product introduction

fiddle bow hair

Color: white, black, other color 

specification(inch)                       : 24"--- 40" 

Packing : bundle, inside water-proof paper , outside cotton cloth .  

Quality standard: 

S800-the bow hair don't include the different color hair, have no the short hair almost. 

S880-The workers pick up 5 times by hand. It has no different color hair and short hair almost. 

The horsetail is uniform, not too thick and not too thin, so the music melody is wonderful!

we can produce horsetail hair with special specification according to customer's requirement, such as 250piece /bundle, 100 small bundles per big bundle.

Product pictures

Although the ponytail has long been used by people, there are not many people in the musical instrument industry who really know the ponytail structure. Some people say that there are thorns on the horse's tail. Some people think the horse tail has hair. These, of course, are not comprehensive.

Cross the ponytail and place the cross-section under the microscope to see that it is made up of three layers. Namely: scale layer, cortical layer and medullary layer.

The outer layer of the horsetail is the scale layer. Scale is composed of the outer membrane of the book, and the cells are highly keratinized. The edges of the scales are curved and curved, which is smoother. Starting from the base of the ponytail, the scales edge toward a slightly lower edge, like a tile on a Chinese style house, with a layer of overlap that overlaps each other. Of course, the size of the scales is not as uniform as the tiles.

Within the scale layer, is the cortical layer. The thickness of the cortical layer is made up of keratinized long-form cells. The cells are very tightly bound together. The tensile strength of the horsetail is determined by this layer.

In the cortical layer, there are some granular pigment cells, which are made of pigmentation and are given in color. Black horse tail is melanin many, white horsetail does not have pigment, flower horsetail is in between the two.

The central part of the ponytail is the woolly layer, which is slightly soft tissue and air. The whole medullary layer forms a strip of trace in the longitudinal section. In the medullary layer, there are also some pigment particles, but much less than in the cortex, which also plays a role in determining the color of the horsetail.

The outer layer of the horsetail has the scale layer, which lays the foundation for the friction between the bow hair and the strings. In order to balance the friction force of the push-pull bow (upper and lower bow), when the bow hairs are tied, half of the tail of a horse will be turned. In addition, the horsetail scale pieces are connected by each other, forming a concave, which is extremely beneficial for the attachment of rosin. Furthermore, the horsetail is composed of protein, and its molecular side chain and the polar base on the peptide chain have a greater adsorption force on the rosin of polar material. In this way, when the horsetail is made of the bow coat, it will be able to touch the strings and sing with ease.

Because of the special structure of the ponytail, combined with high strength and elasticity, it is not surprising that it becomes a good material for the bow hair of the instrument. So far, no material (natural and artificial) has been able to completely replace it.

Anping Dual-horse Animal by products factory

Email :sale1@cn-horsehair.com

Tel:86-15076810302.