Tilt or Not Tilt the Bow?

A simple answer to an often-asked question.

In this video, Lora helps you understand if the bow should be tilted or not tilted while playing.

Released on March 5, 2014

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Andrew * VSM MEMBER * on March 9, 2014 @3:15 am PST

Yes, true that you do not tilt the bow internally, but what I found out is that when you play feeling that you tilt the bow internally, you always play with the hair of the bow very flat and allows a big surface contact with the string resulting to a very big tone. So, when you want to play with power, try tilting the bow internally (feeling of of), and you will be playing with the hair very flat.

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Lora * VSM MEMBER * on March 10, 2014 @8:16 am PST

I like that suggestion, Andrew! Thanks!

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Simone * VSM MEMBER * on March 7, 2014 @2:54 am PST

Dear Lora, the treatise from Galeazzi is in italian, hope you can read it as well. Here is the link for the 1817 edition.

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Lora * VSM MEMBER * on March 7, 2014 @3:29 pm PST

I wonder if it has been translated.....I would not be surprised if it had been translated into English. If it has not.....hmmm.....that sounds like a very noteworthy graduate project for a translation degree....I'm going to look into that!

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Tosh * VSM MEMBER * on March 6, 2014 @2:54 pm PST

That tilt is certainly not an optical illusion...have also seen it on video and telecasts with the camera being positioned in various places so that one can clearly see what is happening...the bow is usually fairly taut...and the sound is often mezzo forte and/or forte, not piannissimo and/or transparent sounding etc. etc. as you have referred to.

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Lora * VSM MEMBER * on March 7, 2014 @3:27 pm PST

Yes, I know. I was sort of joking about the illusion. I have seen it too.

Still, I don't think I would teach a beginner to start using that technique too soon. It seems like a technique that is employed at the highest artistic level, except for the special effects I have already mentioned.

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