{"id":819,"date":"2016-03-01T03:44:13","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T02:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.soniasvikt.org\/?p=819"},"modified":"2016-03-02T23:55:53","modified_gmt":"2016-03-02T22:55:53","slug":"a-new-bow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.soniasvikt.org\/?p=819","title":{"rendered":"A New Bow!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have a new bow and am in awe of what a wonderful difference it is making in my playing. The bow I had at the ESI was pretty good, but very stiff. Olov saw me struggling with something and tried my bow and said, “It is very stiff, but it should work.” I tried my best. But I ordered a bow from Jean Claude Condi, with the help of Emilie who knows him and spoke to him in French. It took about 5 months once we had his attention. I was able to have him ship it to friends in Sweden, since it was not ready until after I had returned to the USA and he didn’t want to ship it to the USA. Then I picked it up when I returned to Sweden and visited them in Furudal\u00a0in late July.<\/p>\n

But what a difference! There are several things I have played where the difference was remarkable; specifically some 16th note passages are now clearly heard where before with the stiff bow they were muddy. I noticed it first on Polska p\u00e5 \u00d6verv\u00e4ningen. The other thing is that now I can do gungstr\u00e5k after some years of trying to do it. I’m sure the ESI training is contributing to this, but the new bow has really been a boost. I am also more consistently getting the sound quality I am aiming for when we worked on “tonstarter” with Olov (the initiation of the note).<\/p>\n

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The old bow is above and the new bow below. The old one is 48 grams and the new one is 44 grams, so a bit lighter.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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