This is getting complicated. Some things I have to add:
1. When you get a newly haired bow (without rosin) it slicks back and forth across the strings without much effect. 2. I looked at 5 different bows under the microscope. All were rosined. a. Inexpensive student bows are strung with some synthetic, not hair. (1 cello bow and 1 viola bow.) b. Quality bows (1 violin, 1 cello) seem to be random, but it's hard to tell how random because of the rosin. Both subjects were rehaired in the 1980s. c. Recently rehaired quality cello bow uses synthetic - by choice. 3. Musicians are really particular about everything, rosin, horses, and the bow materials (pernumbuco, ebony, ivory and silver.) 4. I'm thinking of changing to the banjo. Dick ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Wendt" <[email protected]> To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2010 2:52 AM Subject: Re: [Emc-users] [OT] Horsehair Was [OT]Re: Icecream was [OT] Re: FishingRe: CNC Saw Beveler video - OT > On 06/02/2010 07:05 PM, Andy Pugh wrote: >> On 2 June 2010 23:36, Ian W. Wright<[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> The hair also has a 'right' and a 'wrong' direction. The >>> scales of the hair grow so that they overlap in one direction so that, >>> when the hair is pulled through the hand in one direction, it feels >>> rough and in the other direction, smooth. This is important for violin >>> bows >> >> That makes sense, and has gone into my trivia-memory. Do you know if >> violin bows are all the same way, carefully equalised, or randomised? > > I would imagine they would be somewhat equalized, since violinists (my > daughter is one) push and pull the bow and expect equal "work" in both > directions, if the hair scales are what causes the violin strings to > vibrate. Well, the strings and the rosin, of course. > > Mark > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate > GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the > lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
