Bow Tension

[ross]

Hi everyone, I found your forum and it is amazingly helpful!

I'm very new to the Erhu, and i have a simple questions please.

How loose/tight should the tension of the bow string be? Thanks

[davidmdahl]

If you are familiar with the bow for a violin, the erhu bow is looser. Carlos (Calden) wrote a useful paragraph a while back:

starvoid.proboards30.com/index.cgi?board=Erhu&action=display&thread=1155131072&page=3#1157431603

You may need to do some cut-and-pasting of the above link to get the whole thing. The juicy tidbit comes from the thread "Attaching the strings and tuning".

Best wishes,

David