A perfect, rapid whole bow stroke is a beautiful coordination of speed, varying hand force from frog to tip, and control of ...

It’s a mere quarter of a gram of ivory — about 1 / 100 of an ounce — embedded at the bottom tip of many violin bows. But because it comes from the tusks of the African elephant ...

The average violin bow weighs around 60 grams ... It should never feel tip-heavy or too weighted at the frog. Now this one should be an absolute minimum but especially in the lower budget choices ...

The bow is a rotating cylinder with 1300 horsehairs. To get the sound of a single violin, it actually uses three of them. Rather than the bow being moved to press against the strings, the violins ...

A violin bow tip made from mastodon, center, instead of ivory, Thursday, March 26, 2015, in bow maker Matthew Wehling's workshop in Northfield, Minn. Mastodon and elephant ivory are very similar.