{"id":526,"date":"2023-02-21T20:41:27","date_gmt":"2023-02-21T20:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/?p=526"},"modified":"2023-02-21T20:43:27","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T20:43:27","slug":"violin-bows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/?p=526","title":{"rendered":"Violin Bows"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When I resumed violin a few years ago and began to study Bach Sonatas I found originalists advocating for playing Bach with an older Baroque style bow.  It turns out a decent bow can be had for under $100, so I got one of those \u2013 shown at the bottom of this photo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"562\" src=\"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20190910-IMG_20190910_175109822_HDR-1024x562.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-527\" srcset=\"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20190910-IMG_20190910_175109822_HDR-1024x562.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20190910-IMG_20190910_175109822_HDR-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20190910-IMG_20190910_175109822_HDR-768x421.jpg 768w, https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20190910-IMG_20190910_175109822_HDR-1536x843.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20190910-IMG_20190910_175109822_HDR-2048x1124.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20190910-IMG_20190910_175109822_HDR-1040x571.jpg 1040w, https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20190910-IMG_20190910_175109822_HDR-640x351.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>My violin with a new carbon fiber bow, my old pernambuco wood bow, and a baroque style bow.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I also discovered carbon fiber bows selling under $100 so I picked up one of those as well.  I have found the carbon fiber bow to be as good as the pernambuco bow for my style of playing (though <a href=\"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/?p=285\">as I noted in a previous post<\/a> my style is not &#8230; soft).  The baroque bow has also been fun to use: It&#8217;s shorter, lighter, and more delicate, so it forces me to practice a more gentle approach to playing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I resumed violin a few years ago and began to study Bach Sonatas I found originalists advocating for playing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-violin","post-archive"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=526"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":529,"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526\/revisions\/529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}