Re: Mandolin world vs fiddle world
Originally Posted by
Louise NM
Doug, I would have loved to have been able to go to a shop with a large selection of baroque viola bows to try. It just was not a possibility! As I said many pages back in post #43 on this thread, I couldn't even find a baroque viola in the US, much less a bow.
Yes indeed Louise. Elizabeth Freeland describes in her article how she asked a few violin shops if they had baroque bows and they said that she was the first to ask. (and they did not have any baroque bows.) We are fortunate nowadays to have forums like this where we can make the search easier.
Word of mouth as they say, works the best and my wife says that 20-30 years ago 'everyone knew everyone else'. It was such a small baroque community worldwide. Even then one had to ask a lot of people in order to find bow, or violin, or even gut strings.
I don't know if mandolin players reading this topic understand the 'process of finding a bow'. Most violin players are taught to try many bows before choosing the 'one that works for you'.
Last edited by DougC; Mar-24-2021 at 9:48pm.
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