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Bow making strikes a chord with Porter County man
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Richard Biggs, owner of Biggs Violin Shop in Porter, is one of 200 bow makers in the world. He has customers from Chicago, Michigan, South Bend and Fort Wayne.(PHOTO - Color) (LESLIE ADKINS/POST-TRIBUNE)
The business of making bows for stringed instruments is neither for the imprecise nor the faint-of-heart, as Richard Biggs will tell you.
Entering a bow-making ...
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