sunday practicing and pictures of my baroque violin and bow
i am borrowing the violin from my baroque violin professor and it is from around the late 17th-early 18th century (unfortunately there wasn’t any documented info on the instrument until mid 18th)–it has been “refurbished” many times (consists of a # of techniques including treating the wood so it doesn’t warp)
gut strings, of course
don’t mind the crooked bridge, it’s almost beyond help and i need to get it replaced
the bow is a clip in (made more recently than the violin) and because i can’t tighten or loosen the hair, i have to adjust the tightness of the bow by cramming pieces of leather between the hair and the frog (clip in refers to the fact that the frog literally clips into the end of the wooden stick)
you may be wondering, what happens when it gets so loose that the leather no longer works and/or looks ridiculously protrusive? well, that’s when it’s time to get the bow re-haired….
moral of the story: my violin is old and i’m god damn lucky to have a professor that lets me borrow it
(oh and that’s couperin’s quatorziéme concert on the stand)
