DNAinfo/Kyla Gardner
DOWNTOWN — When someone made off with a Milwaukee concertmaster's 300-year-old, $5 million Stradivarius violin last year, no one said, "But what about the bows?!"
So it goes for the violin world.
Stringed instruments and horse-hair bows date back to the 10th century, but with all the attention paid to the home of Antonio Stradivari and the luthier's contemporaries, the father of the modern bow, "the Stradivari of bow making," Frenchman François Xavier Tourte, isn't a household name.
On this DNAinfo Radio Extra, Kyla Gardner discusses the process of rehairing a bow:
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