Whether you need to travel with your bow, you are in the market for a new bow, or out of plain curiosity, it is important for any string player to know what string instrument bows are made out of. The stick of a violin bow is made of wood, generally Pernambuco. The hair of the…
The bow is made out of wood, hair (horsetail hair), and the frog is mainly made out of ebony. The wooden stick is delicately cambered with heat. So, what do we have to preserve when we store our bow? You need to preserve the wood and camber of your bow, as the hair will likely…
Violins are somehow mythical instruments that can be expensive. Stradivarius violins can even cost up to many millions of dollars. And they sound so wonderfully in the hands of our virtuosi. So what are violins made out of? Violins and string instruments are made out of Spruce wood for the top, Maple for the bottom,…
If you won’t be playing your violin for a while, don’t just toss it under a staircase and call it a day. Far too many violins have been lost to negligence like this because people fail to realize that these delicate instruments require some basic care whether you’re actively playing them or not. Take some…
The bow of a violin is called a bow for obvious reasons: it is made of a stick of wood and a rope (hair) with tension. The role of the tension is twofold: it allows the hair to adapt to the string’s shape easily, something a hard surface won’t do as well. Plus, with its…
If you play the violin or the fiddle, you can’t always ask your teacher to tune your instrument. But do not feel intimidated: it is not difficult after all. Neither the mechanical part of it nor the musical one is out of reach if you follow the following way of doing. From sitting with the…