Bow (music)
Stick-shaped implement with hairs used to play a string musical instrument / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the bow used to play a string instrument. For the musical instrument called "bow", see musical bow.
In music, a bow (/boʊ/) is a tensioned stick which has hair (usually horse-tail hair) coated in rosin (to facilitate friction) affixed to it. It is moved across some part (generally some type of strings) of a musical instrument to cause vibration, which the instrument emits as sound. The vast majority of bows are used with string instruments, such as the violin, viola, cello, and bass, although some bows are used with musical saws and other bowed idiophones.