Chapter 13

THE IMPORTANCE OF THE SLOW BOW. THE RAPID WHOLE BOW. STACCATO. BOWING STUDIES AND SOLOS. CONCLUSION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

PUBLISHER'S NOTE.

In this new impression of the late Mr. Saint-George's book opportunity has been taken to correct a few obvious errors, such as those occurring in the notices of the three bowmakers named Peccatte; the deaths of those makers which have occurred since the publication of the first edition have been noted, and a few fresh names have been added to the list contained in Chapter VIII. In other respects the text of the work remains practically as the author left it.

INDEX TO ILLUSTRATIONS.

PHOTO REPRODUCTIONS OF BOWS.

PLATE I. Head and nut of inlaid bow probably by Stradivari to face page 32

II. Heads of three English bows showing evolution of design to follow page 32

III. Heads of two violin, two viola, and one 'cello bow, by IV. J. Dodd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . to follow page 32

V. Heads of three violin bows and one 'cello bow, by VI. Francois Tourte . . . . . . . . . . . . to face page 48

VII. Heads of bows by Lupot . . . . . . . . . . . to follow page 48

VIII. Two heads of bows by D. Peccatte and one by Panormo to follow page 48

ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT.

FIG. PAGE 1. Locust, showing action of hind leg in producing note . . . . 3

2. Assyrian Trigonon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

3. Crwth bow from the Golden Porch at Freiburg . . . . . . . . 6

4. Ravanastron and bow (Indian) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

5. Uh-Ch'in and bow (Chinese) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

6. Omerti and bow (Indian) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

7. Kemangeh-a-gouz and bow (Arabian) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

8. Rebab-esh-Sha'er and bow (Arabian) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

9. Sitara and bow (Persian) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

10. Sarinda and bow (Bengalese) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

11. Method of hairing some Egyptian bows . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

12. Saw-Tai and bow (Siamese) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

13. Bow of Nyckelharpa (Swedish) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

14. Bow of Saw-oo (Chinese) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

15. Bow of the eighth century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

16. Bow of the ninth century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

17. Bow of the ninth century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

18. Bows of the eleventh century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

19. Bows of the twelfth century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

20. Bows of the thirteenth century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

21. Bows of the fourteenth century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 22.

23. Bows of the fifteenth century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

24. Bows of the sixteenth century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

25. Bows of the seventeenth century (drawn actual size from specimens now in existence) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

26. Bows of the eighteenth century (drawn actual size from specimens now in existence) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

27. Showing detachable nut of some early bows . . . . . . . . . 28

28. Heels of early bows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

29. The Cremaillere . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

30. Head and nut of ornamented Cremonese bow (actual size) . . . 32

31. Head and nut of Dodd bow (reduced) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

32. Head of Dodd bow (actual size) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

33. Geometrical construction showing gradation of stick (Fetis) 43

34. Bow stick in the rough (greatly reduced) . . . . . . . . . . 65

35. Pattern of bow head (actual size) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

36. Ivory face in the rough . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

37. Gauge for nuts (actual size) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

38. Parts of a bow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

39. Tip of bow showing "cups" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

40. Head of bow showing trench . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

41. Nut of bow showing screw and method of hairing . . . . . . . 75

42. End view of nut showing bow with unequal facets . . . . . . 76

43. Dr. Nicholson's bow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

44. A fifteenth century violist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

45. A seventeenth century gambist (from Sympson) . . . . . . . . 93

THE BOW: Its History, Manufacture and Use.