Everything about the fiddle, including the thickness of the wood, is a determinant of the sound. But you don’t get any sound at all unless you have rosin on the bow. Mr. Macarthur explains that the ...

The fiddler from Fort McPherson, N.W.T. has got a new one to tell now — about how he took a fall and ended up with the real horsehair fiddle bow he'd long wanted, thanks to some admiring paramedics.

He can tell that it will soon be time to re-hair the bow. LeFort has been repairing fiddler's bows for several years. "Bows just capture me somehow, I'm not exactly sure how to describe it," he said.

It’s a changing world, and times are tough for arts organizations. So maybe it’s time to turn to the tried-and-true, such as Fiddle and Bow, the Triad’s folk music society, ...