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Saga Musical Instruments is a manufacturer and wholesale distributor of stringed instruments, particularly fretted instruments and members of the violin family, and parts and accessories for them. They own twenty-two brands, fifteen are listed below.
The frogs of a violin bow, viola bow and cello bow Close-up of frog of a violin bow (K. Gerhard Penzel) Frogs of the French and German double bass bows. The bow frog is the end part of a stringed musical instrument's bow that encloses the mechanism responsible for tightening and holding the bow hair ribbon.
A fiddle is a bowed string musical instrument, most often a violin. [1] It is a colloquial term for the violin, used by players in all genres, including classical ...
Brass instrument parts and accessories (12 P) D. Drum kit components (1 C, 39 P) P. Percussion instrument beaters (12 P) S. String instrument construction (3 C, 41 P) W.
A violin tailpiece. Here, the two strings on the far side pass through the keyhole slots directly, but the nearer two strings use fine tuners. Fine tuners are used on the tailpiece of some stringed instruments, as a supplement to the tapered pegs at the other end. Tapered pegs are harder to use to make small adjustments to pitch.
The classical bow was pioneered by François Xavier Tourte, a French master bowmaker from the late 18th and early 19th century. [3] With the help of virtuoso violinist G.B. Viotti he sought to improve upon the limitations of the Baroque bow by lengthening it, strengthening its tip, and introducing a curvature that allowed for greater flexibility and improved the springing action of the bow.