Artists of bowed stringed instruments.

Informational sites about the bowed string instrument the bass. Also known as the double or upright bass.

The bowed psaltery is a stringed musical instrument that has been adapted to a triangular shape to facilitate bowing each string individually. (As opposed to the more traditional plucked psaltery.)

A Welsh term for a plucked and, from about the 11th century, a bowed lyre. Three 18th-century six-string Welsh crwths have survived, but it fell completely out of fashion by the early 19th century.

A small number of modern makers now make exact copies of crwths, and playing techniques are being rediscovered by Welsh traditional musicians through experimentation and in the light of the evidence of 16th-century treatises.

In recent years, traditional violin family instruments, including viola, cello, and bass, have been modified to a lesser or greater extent for the purpose of producing electronic signals that can be amplified and otherwise processed.

The Hardanger fiddle (or Hardingfele) looks very similar to the violin, but is typically very ornate, and has eight or nine strings. Four are bowed and fingered like a violin. The other strings pass under the fingerboard, and sing in sympathetic resonance to the other four.

It is effectively the national instrument of Norway, and closely associated with the folk and dance traditions of the country; each valley may have its own playing "dialect".

For companies and individual artists making more than one type of bowed string instrument. Sites may promote or illustrate the products of an instrument maker, demonstrate the maker's techniques, or give biographical, historic or other information.

Forums, newgroups and mailing lists for bowed string instrument makers are also appropriate.

Considered the world's oldest stringed instrument, the mouthbow consists of a single string made of horsehair, sinew, or wire and a curved piece of wood or bone.

Scholars believe the mouthbow first came to the United States with slaves from Africa.

The nyckelharpa is a traditional Swedish instrument played with a bow. It first appeared over 600 years ago and has evolved into several different types over that time.

The sarangi is revered for its great flexibility of timbre and inflection, and the intensity of emotional expression to which it lends itself. A derivative of a folk fiddle, it entered Hindustani art music during the eighteenth century. The classical sarangi is carved out of a single piece of hardwood, and is between 64 and 67 centimeters long. It. It has three melody strings (usually made of gut) and around thirty-five metal sympathetic strings. The strings pass over and through a bridge made of bone or ivory. The bow, held with an underhand grip, is considerably heavier than Western violin or cello bows, contributing to the solidity and vocal quality of the sound. The instrument's tone and playability are largely determined by its setting up: placement and contouring of the bridges, thickness and height of the strings, and fitting of the pegs. These add up to an instrument notoriously difficult to play. The melody strings are stopped not with the pads of the fingers but with the cuticles or the upper nails or the skin above the nails of the left hand.

The viola is a member of the violin family of instruments. It is a few inches longer than the violin and tuned a perfect fifth lower then the violin. The treble clef is used for viola music when played in the higher registers, but the alto clef is the default clef used in viola music. Otherwise, it, and the way that it is played, is virtually identical to the violin. While the viola can be used for in many styles of music, it is used primarily in classical music.

The Viola de Gamba is a cello-sized "viol." Viols were bowed, fretted, stringed instruments, derived from guitars, and predecessors of the modern bowed strings: violin, viola, cello, and double bass. The viola de gamba's rich sound kept it in use after the modern violin and viola had supplanted the smaller viols; but by 1750 the more powerful cello was replacing it too. With the newed interest in period instruments (and the easy availability of chamber music recordings suitable for the, well, chambers we live in) the viola de gamba is enchanting a new generation of listeners.

The violin is the smallest and highest-pitched of the standard modern bowed strings. The viola, cello, and double bass have their own categories. Submissions that deal with specific violin subjects for the violin, need to submit sites that correspond to the one of the subcategories under the Bowed Strings: Violin category: For violinists' sites - Arts: Music: Instruments: Stringed: Bowed Strings: Violin: Violinists For sites of violin makers - Arts: Music: Instruments: Stringed: Bowed Strings: Violin: Makers For sites that specialize in violin sales with online options for purchase - Shopping: Music: Instruments: Stringed: Bowed Strings: Violin Sites that deal specifically with general electric violin subjects - electric or amplified violin - should be submitted to one of he electric bowed string categories: Arts: Music: Instruments: Stringed: Bowed Strings: Electric Arts: Music: Instruments: Stringed: Bowed Strings: Violin: Makers: Electric Violins