bowed string instrument

The tradition & historical record

Bowed string instruments are a subcategory of string instruments that are played by a bow rubbing the strings. The bow rubbing the string causes vibration which the instrument emits as sound. Despite the numerous specialist studies devoted to the origin of bowing, the origin of bowing remains unknown. ¹

Variants on the standard members of the violin family include ¹

Variants on the standard four members of the viol family include ¹

The following instruments are sounded by means of a turning wheel that acts as the bow: ¹

The text above is adapted from the Wikipedia article “Bowed string instrument”, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence. ¹

bowed string instrument is string instrument played by a bow rubbing the strings, according to the structured record cited below. This entry was generated automatically from that record and has not yet been reviewed by a person familiar with the tradition. ²

The source record links this tradition to 32 external registers, which can be verified through the citation. ²