Dominique Peccatte

Dominique Peccatte (15 July 1810 – 13 January 1874) was a French luthier and above all a renowned bow maker.

He is notable for adapting the "hatchet-shaped" type head — a model arrived at by Tourte — and is considered one of the most influential bow makers.

- Gennady Filimonov "Dominique Peccatte, (who is presumed to have learned his craft with Persoit, and apparently worked in the Lupot atelier as well, before a stint in the Vuillaume workshop) continued the trend with a bow patterned after Tourte’s strongest, heaviest model.

The Peccatte concept for a bow was generally heavier than anything before him in France, and his output was vast and consistent.

Although it neither produces the beauty of tone of a Tourte, nor handles with the nimbleness of a Nicolaus Kittel, a fine Peccatte does everything it must do very well, and with a thick rich sonority.