Bowed Guitar Viol "Yellow Raven/Living & Dying" Medley

Jonathan demos a newly built TogaMan GuitarViol (acoustic) and plays a short medley treatment (exerpts) of Uli Jon Roth's "Yellow Raven" "Living & Dying" from Scorpions era.
More info on instrument(s) www.togamanguitars.com

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Music

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• bowed
• guitar
• guitarviol
• togaman
• arpeggione
• Uli
• Roth
• Scorpoins
• Yelow
• Raven
• alternative
• classical
• rock
• unsigned
• folk

[MrTephama]

cool

[KhamnNacuri]

I am looking to get one, I just have to scrape up a wee bit more money.

[GuitarViols]

@KhamnNacuri It is all in the hands of the player. The incredibows I use are very modern and feather weight...

[GuitarViols]

@KhamnNacuri Actually, Viola Da Gamba players varied dynamics really well. The slack tension of the bow allowed for adjusting tension by fingers as it was played.

This allowed instant slack (covering multiple strings one second) to tightening (single note) the next moment.

[KhamnNacuri]

@GuitarViols They used to look like archers' bows, and couldn't change dynamics.

[KhamnNacuri]

@KhamnNacuri Of course. I just thought that design had become obsolete.

[GuitarViols]

@KhamnNacuri Yes, Early Music (Viol, Viola Da Gamba) bows were outer arched.

Actually, before Violins/cellos existed, the underhand out arched bow was quite common.

[KhamnNacuri]

@GuitarViols Outer arched? That's interesting.

[GuitarViols]

@KhamnNacuri Again, A specially made outer arched GuitarViol bow; 20" hair with a hair width right between a viola and cello.

[KhamnNacuri]

@StopTheMoti0n I know that it is not a cello bow; it is too thin for that.