It's just a piece of wood, innit?
I would like to take a moment to ramble on the subject of variation in bows. And I mean in particular bows for violin, viola and cello, because double bass bows are more free in their specifications, and I’ll leave them for another time. Although there is a general idea of how much a bow should weigh, where it should balance and how long it should be, anyone who has gone looking to buy a bow will have found that they all feel different and it can take months of searching to f