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Bowed String Music Resources

A guide to music and information about the violin, viola, cello, and double bass

Bows and Bow Makers

Bows for Musical Instruments of the Violin Family by Joseph Roda
Call Number: ML845.R6
Bows and Bow Makers by William C. Retford
Call Number: ML845.R48
Universal Dictionary of Violin and Bow Makers (5 vol.) by William Henley
Call Number: ML404.H45

Instrument Makers

Looking at the Double Bass by Raymond Elgar
Call Number: ML404.E45
Universal Dictionary of Violin and Bow Makers (5 vol.) by William Henley
Call Number: ML404.H45
Italian Violin Makers by Karel Jalovec
Call Number: ML404.J312
Antonio Stradivari: His Life and Work, 1644-1737 by W. Henry Hill, Arthur F. Hill, and Alfred E. Hill
Call Number: ML424.S8H62 1963
Geometry, Proportion, and the Art of Lutherie: A Study of the Use and Aesthetic Significance of Geometry and Numerical Proportion in the Design of European Bowed- and Plucked-string Instruments in the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries by Kevin Coates
Call Number: ML755.C6 1985
German Violin Makers: A Critical Dictionary of German Violin Makers, with a Series of Plates Illustrating Characteristic and Fine Examples of their Work by Fridolin Hamma
Call Number: ML826.H33

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