It’s called the Pickaso Guitar Bow, and it is a 6.3” mini-bow with synthetic hairs on either side, and it even has an integrated guitar pick so that you can alternate your techniques. It can make your ...

Appraisal: Auguste Falisse Violin & French Bow, ca. 1917 ...

The erhu produces a sound much like that of a violin but does not look like that instrument. “It’s a long-necked, two-stringed instrument with a bow in between,” Ji says.

The bow, for example, is an instrument of torture. When I pick it up, my baby finger often locks at a weird angle and the bow feels like it is about to fall from my hands.

AILSA CHANG, HOST: But all did not go according to plan. STEFAN JACKIW: I, you know, walk out on stage in the evening with my violin and my bow. And I've been playing on this bow for about 20 years.

Why spend all the time and money to find the perfect violin and then don’t match those efforts on finding the matching bow – it wouldn’t make sense and waste a large chunk of your potential ...

Folk music experts have told me that he is holding the violin in a " folk style" and seems to show that he is used to playing it. It seems larger than a normal violin closer to a viola.

Fiddle and Bow’s origins lie with Thomas, a Wilkesboro native who came of age during the folk revival of the late 1950s and early ’60s – an era when a folk song about a man from his home ...