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  2. Cello technique - Wikipedia

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    In cello playing, the bow is much like the breath of a wind instrument player. [citation needed] Arguably, it is the major determinant in the expressiveness of the playing. [citation needed] The bow arm divides itself into three independent portions: the arm, the forearm, and the hand. Flexibility in all three portions is required for relaxed ...

  3. Curved bow - Wikipedia

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    The BACH.Bow for Cello. The curved bow for string instruments enables string players to control the tension of the bow hair in order to play one, two, three and four strings simultaneously and to change easily among these possibilities. The high arch of the bow allows full, sustained chords to be played and there is a lever mechanism that ...

  4. Cello techniques - Wikipedia

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    They slowly changed the fingering methods of the cello, as there was a perceived notion that using the violin and viola de gamba technique on the cello was detrimental to its style. [3] The bowing technique of placing the fingers on the bow stick above the frog became more widespread as the French valued consistent, beautiful tones above all else.

  5. Bow (music) - Wikipedia

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    A cello bow. In music, a bow (/ b oʊ /) is a tensioned stick which has hair (usually horse-tail hair) coated in rosin (to facilitate friction) affixed to it.It is moved across some part (generally some type of strings) of a musical instrument to cause vibration, which the instrument emits as sound.

  6. String Quintet in E major, Op. 11, No. 5 (Boccherini) - Wikipedia

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    This string quintet is a "cello quintet" in that it is scored for a string quartet (two violins, viola, cello) with a second cello as the fifth instrument.At the time of this composition, Boccherini had been writing string quartets for about ten years.

  7. Inverted bow - Wikipedia

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    The Ulstein X-Bow (or just X-BOW) is an inverted ship's bow designed by Ulstein Group to improve handling in rough seas, and to lower fuel consumption by causing less hydrodynamic drag. [1] It is shaped somewhat like a submarine's bow. [2] Bourbon Orca anchor tug, shown in 2012, was the first ship built with an Ulstein X-Bow in 2006.

  8. Robert Rutman - Wikipedia

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    Robert Rutman (15 May 1931 – 1 June 2021) [1] was a German visual artist, musician, composer, and instrument builder. Best known for his work with homemade idiophones in his Steel Cello Ensemble, Rutman is regarded as a pioneer of multimedia performance in his mixing of music, sculpture, film, and visual art.

  9. List of solo cello pieces - Wikipedia

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    La alborada de la esperanza (The Dawn of Hope) (2018) Limoncello (2018) Crepúsculos (Twilights) (2018) Princesa de hadas (Fairy Tale Princess) (1995) Excursión a la montaña (Excursion to the Mountain) (1995) Hans Ulrich Engelmann. Mini-music to Siegfried Palm, Op. 38 (1970) Sven Einar Englund. Suite (1986) Gottfried von Einem. Music, Op. 108 ...