Finding the Right Baroque Cello Bow for Your Setup
If you're looking for a baroque cello bow, you're likely entering a world where everything you thought you knew about tension and weight gets flipped on its head. It's a bit of a shock the first time you pick one up. Most of us spent our formative years learning to pull a massive, consistent sound out of a modern Tourte-style bow, focusing on that "continuous silk" line of sound. But the second you swap that out for a baroque model, you realize the music of the 17th and 18th centuries wasn't really designed for that kind of heavy lifting. ...