id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 29112 Saint-George, Henry The Bow, Its History, Manufacture and Use 'The Strad' Library, No. III. .txt text/plain 29926 1963 77 I. Head and nut of inlaid bow probably by Stradivari Head and nut of ornamented Cremonese bow (actual size) . Head and nut of Dodd bow (reduced) . Nut of bow showing screw and method of hairing . Of existing bowed instruments the Ravanastron (Fig. 4) most certainly handsome ivory nut of this bow is shown in Fig. 28. This is very remarkable as none of the bow makers now working know of The mean length of a violin bow as fixed by Tourte is from 74 to 75 nut, the curved ferrule, and the self-hairing bow. The hair is usually inserted in a bow in the natural position of its them, but good makers always make the nut for each bow as it is shaped notches in the head and nut and the bow was haired. The hair in this bow is placed at such an ./cache/29112.txt ./txt/29112.txt