Develop a Natural Bow Hold

What Is a Natural Bow Hold?
Rest your right arm at your side. Notice how your fingers curl slightly. That’s your first clue. Keeping this relaxation in your fingers, and your wrist floppy, bend your elbow and bring your hand up to shoul­der height. Notice the spread of your top four fingers. That’s your second clue. Even if your thumb is already curling in toward the other fingers, turn your hand over so the palm faces up and let your thumb curl inward, most likely to touch the middle fin­ger at the joint closest to the middle finger’s tip (Fig. 4a).

Now turn your hand back over, but keep your thumb curling inward (Fig. 4b). That’s your natural bow hold!


By Laurel Thomsen

Article taken from the Stringsweek email sent on January 20, 2012. Too see it online click on the link below:
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