Bowed string instrument
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Bowed string instruments are a subcategory of string instruments that are played by a bow rubbing the strings. The bow rubbing the string causes vibration which the instrument emits as sound.
Niccolò Paganini playing the violin, by Georg Friedrich Kersting (1785–1847)
Josephine van Lier plays a violoncello piccolo, a five-string variant of the Baroque cello, during a recording session of Bach's 6th Cello Suite.
Karl Friedrich Abel playing the bass Viola da Gamba, by Thomas Gainsborough (1727–1788)
Violinmaker Hans Benning of Benning Violins creating a Baryton in Los Angeles, 1963.
Bow (music)
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In music, a bow is a tensioned stick which has hair coated in rosin affixed to it. It is moved across some part of a musical instrument to cause vibration, which the instrument emits as sound. The vas
Frog of a modern violin bow (K. Gerhard Penzel)
Tip of a modern violin bow (K. Gerhard Penzel)
Carving of a bowed musical instrument (cruit or fiddle, 11th century Ireland, Lough Currane)
Turning the screw on a modern violin bow causes the frog (heel) to move, which adjusts the tension on the hair.