How to Prepare a Violin Bow

Video Transcript

"Hi, My name is Teresa Neumann and I'm here today to show you how to prep a violin bow. Before you play, you tighten your bow. You take your bow and you take some rosin, this is violin rosin and it doesn't matter what kind you use. They sell all different kinds but rosin is basically rosin, so it doesn't have to be expensive. So it looks like this, its a solid piece of rosin and basically what you are doing is you are waxing your bow. You start down here near the frog and you simply glide it along to the tip of the bow. You do this several times and there is no magic number of times. I usually do mine maybe four or five times. Basically, what this is doing, what the rosin does is it coats the hair on the bow so that when you play it diminishes any kind of squeaking sound. It just gives it a better contact with the bough. It's kind of like when you chalk up your fingers when your playing some sports, give it a better grip. It's very simple and that's it."