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About the Body of a Violin
About the Bridge, Pegs & Chin Rest of a Violin
About the Parts of the Violin Bow
About the Strings of a Violin Bow
Applying Rosin to a Violin Bow
When to Take a Violin Bow to a Violin Technician for Maintenance
Possible Problems Violin Bows Encounter
General Maintenance Tips for the Fiddle & Violin
Cleaning Products for Maintaining a Fiddle & Violin
Cleaning Don'ts for the Fiddle & Violin
Why to Avoid Water With a Fiddle & Violin
Major Repairs for the Fiddle & Violin
Conditions to Avoid With Violins & Fiddles
How Temperature & Humidity Affect Fiddles & Violins
Repairing Neck Breaks & Cracks in Fiddles & Violins
Types of Violin Strings
Differences Between the Types of Violin Strings
Understanding Vulnerability of Fiddle & Violin Bow Hair
Understanding & Caring for the Ivory Tip of Fiddle & Violin Bows
Summary: Learn about rosin and why it's important to apply to a violin bow as well as how to do it with expert music training tips in this free online instrument maintenance video clip for beginners.
David Kaynor has over 30 years of fiddle playing experience. He currently teaches and plays the fiddle in the Connecticut River Valley. He can be often found calling music and playing...read more
" Hi! I’m David Kaynor for expertvillage.com. I’m going to talk about bow maintenance. The first thing I’m going to do is rosin this bow. Here we have some rosin made from pine pitch I believe. And bow hair has little nodules on it, which when they have some rosin dust on them will alternately grip and release a violin string. The result being that you get a reasonably consistent generation of tone, I’ve been told the best way to rosin a bow is to draw the hair across the rosin and then pick it up for a split second so that there’s no danger of friction generating too much heat. The idea being that if rosin is heated up, it tends to become globular, whereas what you want is for it to be in a state of tiny grains of dust. And if you were to just rub really vigorously, the friction would heat it up and create globs, and rosining is supposed to apply dust rather than globs."
eHow Article: Applying Rosin to a Violin Bow
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