Yay I was right!! Bow B just had this more colorful voice, more range of expression. I am listening on my cell phone speaker as an adult beginner with only 1 year under my belt. Quite proud of myself! 😂
And here I was hesitating on buying a $250 bow. I could actually tell a difference once I got it, but man I could only imagine the difference for a $2200 bow. Maybe someday. Thanks for all of the great videos!
I was correct with bow B. What CAN increase the price of a bow is some brands still use horsehair(from the tail) to create the strings due to their strand thickness, longevity, elasticity, and old customs from when they first started making bows.
@vibratingstring I'm hurt by the mocking tone of your reply. You did not need to say it like that . . . .I hope you are kinder to others, you never know what could happen to you should your tone upset the wrong type of person.
@vibratingstring seeing as how your tone hasnt changed, i am refusing your toxic energy and will no longer feed or expend or waste anymore of my energy on you. Good luck with life and bless your heart
First I was wrong. I could not tell much becouse my second comment you the first guy I heard when doing a comparison talked about the way we heard it. Tiny Mike tiny headphones. I said this over Bluetooth as well. So I have great ears. I heard what guy said an extra tone. I thought that was from the bow not being good so it add mistakes. That what I heard it as over Bluetooth headphones. Thanks I started my journey in the guitar with my kids. My son loves the electric violin I love it to. I love looking at any content about instruments. He actually a beat boxer but he loves to hear the best electric violin players on Spotify and youtube he always showing me every new one he finds on RU-vid or Spotify. We love Can you do us a favor and give us the bands you play in and or the songs you play on. I love to put you on our play list.
So good point. B is more scratchy. And those higher frequencies are going to help the instrument project into the room a lot better. It’ll sound much stronger 100 feet away.
Yes it sounds better. But not 22x better. It seems most things violin including learning it are extreme examples of diminishing returns, much more so than other instruments.
Diminishing returns is definitely a thing. For me, the sweet spot on carbon fiber bows is around $500-600. Past that, they definitely get better, but the price goes up faster than the quality does. A $2000 bow is probably 50% better than a $500 bow. The question is, "How bad do you need that 50%?"
Great question. My experience is that, with electrics and acoustics, your best bet is to do some experimentation to find the best combo of instrument and bow.
$2200?????????? I don’t even want to talk about having to re-hair that thing. It’s at least the price of the “cheaper” bow. How exactly do you justify spending that on a bow? Seems like the violin choice would be more important. With the same hair, how does a simple bow design differ enough to make a $2,100 price hike, worth it?
Rehairs run around $100, regardless of bow price. And there are a lot of folks who would argue that the bow choice is at least as important as the violin choice.
I was confused because you used video of the exact same violin twice, but I guess that is to prevent people from being able to tell which is which based on appearance. I could tell A was the cheaper one, because it sounded brighter, but flatter.
lmfao they still sound exactly the same. But apparently I got it right by guessing the cheap one is the one that looks like mine. And turns out it costs the same too lol.
If the hair is the same, you are not going to hear a difference on long tones IMO. The difference is going to come into play with different bow strokes/articulations. At the end of the day most non-pros won't really be able to take advantage of the difference anyway and should focus on getting a quality instrument which will give you a way better ROI
That's not really in line with what the experts say. The people who do this for a living would tell you that you should spend about 2/3 of your budget on the instrument and about 1/3 on the bow. And the hair isn't where the money is. The stick is.
@@ElectricViolinShopwhat type of wood is used on the high end bows? Where is the expense? The carving of the wood? Weight? Everything I suppose. The tension of the hair?
Whilst you can notice that the sound is nicer, that isn't the main reason for expensive instruments. Most of the time it is for how the my feel. If an instrument doesn't feel comfortable to play, it will sound like crap in the end
