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Is my violin bow broken?
I've just started using my violin-I don't have a teacher yet- and I'm not precisely sure to use it properly, even with a guidance book.
I woke up this morning and I went to try out my violin again. I opened up my case and one of the long hair things on the bow is in half and just hanging.
Although its just one I'm very worried that I have broken it.
Any ideas or awnsers on what to do? Would it be wrong or right to just cut the one off?
HELP! XD
Thanks
4 Answers
- DLashofLv 79 years agoFavorite Answer
If the hair wasn't broken when you put it in the case, the chance that it just decided to break on its own is only one possibility. It is more likely that you have what is referred to as "bow bugs" in your case. They are a type of beetle that eats protein, and horsehair is protein. This can happen if the instrument is stored for a while at your location or even on the stores shelf.
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It is always best to cut off the broken hair with a scissors in nail clipper rather than breaking it off. This is because, if the plugs holding the hair in are not especially tight, the hair can be pulled out of the tie off rather than break. This would loosen the hair in the tie off and more or all the hair could come loose.
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Individual bow hairs break now and then. Just pull it off.
If you start losing a few hairs every time you use the violin, you probably have a cheap bow with low-quality hair and shoddy workmanship holding it together. Under normal conditions bows only lose hairs occasionally.
- 9 years ago
Grasp the hair and pull it in the direction where it is broken. So say the hair sticking out from the frog, pull the string down not up. Hairs will come out every now and then, don't worry.
