The average violin bow weighs around 60 grams ... more flexible bows deliver much smoother, legato notes. Given the ...

From a collection of bows hung on music stand in his living room, Tom Carlson carefully pulls one out, tightening the ribbon of horsehair until taut. Next, he turns to a row of violins sitting ...

Range A violin can play from the G below middle C, known as G3, up to a high E two octaves above its highest string, known as E7. Each of the four strings is tuned a fifth apart, making up the notes G ...

The violin was Elgar’s own instrument and his Violin Concerto is almost like a personal confession: it was ‘too emotional’, Elgar admitted, adding that he loved it nonetheless. The Spanish ...