Bass viol bow, Snakewood with screw mechanism
Treble viol bow, Snakewood with clip-in frog
Treble viol bow, Ebony with bird’s eye maple clip-in frog
Bow for a violone (in G)
Made from snakewood, 80cm long.
Double-bass baroque bow with German style frog. Made from Snakewood
Renaissance descant viol bow
Made from Yew wood, with clip-in frog.
Renaissance viol bow
Made from Yew wood, with clip-in frog.
Two shapes for a viol from Simpson‘s “The Division Viol” (1660). If we take the string playing length to be around 65-70 cm for a Bass Viol, the bow in the picture could have been around 67-72 cm long.