Scan 62
Die Geigenmacher der alten italienischen Schule: Eine Uebersicht aller …, 1877
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1The stages of improvement in the bow should be divided roughly into two phases—Figs. 2 and 3, representing the first phase, and Figs. 4 and 5 the second.
3The importance of the first phase lies in the improvement of the shape of the stick, and the addition of the head and nut. Here improvement ceases. With regard to the qualities necessary for technique and tone no fundamental improvement whatever was made. In the second phase (Figs. 4 and 5) an improvement bearing on the qualities of tone and technique was effected.
5It may be asked, "What was this improvement?"
7It consists of a certain kind of elasticity in the stick imparted to the hair when pressed on the strings.
9In this respect the second phase (see Figs. 4 and 5) differs very considerably from the first phase (see Figs. 2 and 3).
11The stick, as will readily be seen, is something more than merely a means of bridging the hair.
13If pressure is put on any part of the hair with bows represented by Figs. 1, 2 and 3, the upper end of the stick is pulled towards the nut. This lessens the distance between the head and nut, and correspondingly diminishes the tension of the hair. The hair bends inwards at the point of pressure. (It is impor-
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