If a report in today's Sunday Express is to be believed, the bow used by winner Guy Johnstone and which lost hairs so liberally, was a "6000 pound bow on loan from a well-wisher". Any comment on that from the MCML cello section? The article is mainly about the family tragedy of Guy's brother Rupert - a horn player - severely injured and brain-damaged in a car accident. Ian Crisp [log in to unmask]