A Baroque violin is a violin that has been either originally built in Baroque and its neck, bridge, and tail piece have been preserved as originally constructed, or a violin that has been built in modern times but in a manner and following the details of the violins as they were built in Baroque time. Baroque violinists play their instruments using gut strings and Baroque bows. The violin is a stringed musical instrument that has four strings tuned a perfect fifth apart. ...
But look closely at the baroque lady playing the violin in our headline illustration - the bow is convex-arched well away from the bow strings, and her thumb is placed under the bow strings.
This was the German style of bow, which went out of fashion with the end of the baroque era in 1750, as this cartoon from the later, "gallant" or "rococco" period illustrates.
Violinist Rudolf Gähler has made a number of recordings and tv appearances, and is well known as a concert artiste.
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