Not a good morning - accidentally swapped violin bow
Not a good morning - accidentally swapped violin bow
I am not having such an idle or splendid morning. I've discovered my bow is not my bow. Rather, I have obtained an "alfred knoll" bow with single dot (rather than target) mother of pearl and what looks like a silver frog mount, on a round bow. From where I don't know. Mine was a rather nice paesold bow whose weight I was just getting used to..... arghh
It could of been the session last night, but I've been using my girlfriends violin recently and hadn't cracked my own case open in a while, which mean it could have been swapped at a number of other sessions..... arghhh
Does anyone know anything about this alfred knoll bow I've obtained?
p.s. if any of you were at Dunkeld at the Niel Gow festival sessions in the taybank, can you check you bows!!!!!
Re: Not a good morning - accidentally swapped violin bow
Hope you get your own bow back, Jamie. I've been to some fiddle workshops where we were encouraged to swap bows and have always panicked just in case I don't get my own bow back. Your own bow is like an old friend even although it's not necessarily the best or most expensive one there.
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What's the big deal? One bow's pretty much like another, eh?
We were once (many years ago) having a little session on a Tube train - as you do. One of the fiddle players opened their case to find it *empty* - they'd left their fiddle in the pub, about a dozen stops away by this time!
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No, one bow is certainly not like another. The bow is the biggest single factor in affecting your playing, in volume and quality of tone, and in control and response. A good player with a good bow can make an average fiddle sound tremendous, but a crap bow will give crap results even with the best of instruments.
The bow truly is an extension of the player, and many players will hang on to a good bow throughout their career, even though they may change their fiddle several times.
Trevor
Re: Not a good morning - accidentally swapped violin bow
I think Orson was joking there, Trev...bow switching is altogether too easy. The bow I'm playing with now is Mike Dugger's old bow, and a beautiful bow it is. It's worth about four times the value of the fiddle I play, and now I'm constantly worried about the bow getting switched, lost, broken -- except for when I'm throwing it around at a session by accident! ;)
Re: Not a good morning - accidentally swapped violin bow
No the only place an elbow should go is your ear...
...or is that....
....the only thing that should go in your ear is your elbow (as the ENT specialists teach us medical students)
Re: Not a good morning - accidentally swapped violin bow
I recently had a bad experience where the end of a cotton bud came off in my ear and vanished - I was a bit paranoid about it and eventually went to the nurse at work who removed it with a scarily long pair of tweezers - she told me you should never put anything in your ear smaller than your elbow!
good advice methinks!
Not a good morning - accidentally swapped violin bow
Not a good morning - accidentally swapped violin bow
I am not having such an idle or splendid morning. I've discovered my bow is not my bow. Rather, I have obtained an "alfred knoll" bow with single dot (rather than target) mother of pearl and what looks like a silver frog mount, on a round bow. From where I don't know. Mine was a rather nice paesold bow whose weight I was just getting used to..... arghh
It could of been the session last night, but I've been using my girlfriends violin recently and hadn't cracked my own case open in a while, which mean it could have been swapped at a number of other sessions..... arghhh
Does anyone know anything about this alfred knoll bow I've obtained?
p.s. if any of you were at Dunkeld at the Niel Gow festival sessions in the taybank, can you check you bows!!!!!
# Posted on April 15th 2004 by Jamie
Re: Not a good morning - accidentally swapped violin bow
Hope you get your own bow back, Jamie. I've been to some fiddle workshops where we were encouraged to swap bows and have always panicked just in case I don't get my own bow back. Your own bow is like an old friend even although it's not necessarily the best or most expensive one there.
# Posted on April 15th 2004 by Johnny Jay
Re: Not a good morning - accidentally swapped violin bow
What's the big deal? One bow's pretty much like another, eh?
We were once (many years ago) having a little session on a Tube train - as you do. One of the fiddle players opened their case to find it *empty* - they'd left their fiddle in the pub, about a dozen stops away by this time!
# Posted on April 15th 2004 by Just a person
Re: Not a good morning - accidentally swapped violin bow
No, one bow is certainly not like another. The bow is the biggest single factor in affecting your playing, in volume and quality of tone, and in control and response. A good player with a good bow can make an average fiddle sound tremendous, but a crap bow will give crap results even with the best of instruments.
The bow truly is an extension of the player, and many players will hang on to a good bow throughout their career, even though they may change their fiddle several times.
Trevor
# Posted on April 15th 2004 by Trevor Jennings
Got it back
Panic over, apparently I'd made a significant upgrade in money, but I'm just seriously glad to have mine back.
# Posted on April 16th 2004 by Jamie
Re: Not a good morning - accidentally swapped violin bow
I think Orson was joking there, Trev...bow switching is altogether too easy. The bow I'm playing with now is Mike Dugger's old bow, and a beautiful bow it is. It's worth about four times the value of the fiddle I play, and now I'm constantly worried about the bow getting switched, lost, broken -- except for when I'm throwing it around at a session by accident! ;)
# Posted on April 16th 2004 by Zina Lee
Re: Not a good morning - accidentally swapped violin bow
Can anyone invent a bow to make my accordion playing sound better? There must be someone out there...
# Posted on April 16th 2004 by Conán McDonnell
Re: Not a good morning - accidentally swapped violin bow
Take a bow, Con
# Posted on April 16th 2004 by Will Harmon
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Sometimes your puns bring a (lu)thier to my eye, Will.
;
# Posted on April 16th 2004 by Conán McDonnell
Re: Not a good morning - accidentally swapped violin bow
How about a crossbow?
# Posted on April 16th 2004 by Just a person
Re: Not a good morning - accidentally swapped violin bow
A pint of Strongbow, maybe.
# Posted on April 16th 2004 by Conán McDonnell
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...or even an elbow
# Posted on April 16th 2004 by Conán McDonnell
Re: Not a good morning - accidentally swapped violin bow
No the only place an elbow should go is your ear...
...or is that....
....the only thing that should go in your ear is your elbow (as the ENT specialists teach us medical students)
# Posted on April 16th 2004 by Jamie
Re: Not a good morning - accidentally swapped violin bow
I recently had a bad experience where the end of a cotton bud came off in my ear and vanished - I was a bit paranoid about it and eventually went to the nurse at work who removed it with a scarily long pair of tweezers - she told me you should never put anything in your ear smaller than your elbow!
good advice methinks!
# Posted on April 16th 2004 by drizzt
Re: Not a good morning - accidentally swapped violin bow
Me thinks you should claim compensation for your traumatic experience.
# Posted on April 16th 2004 by never-trust-a-violinist