Studying friction while playing the violin: exploring the stick–slip phenomenon

• Santiago Casado

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 159–166, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.16

• bow hairs, suggesting that a structure having peaks and a roughness similar to that of the string to which both bow hairs rubbed permits a better control of the stick–slip phenomenon. Keywords: atomic force microscopy; bow hair; friction; stick–slip; tribology; violin; Introduction Friction is

• the best bow hair structure can also encourage a better synthetic construction. Currently, most of the advanced bows are still made of breakable natural horse hair, and the first attempts to produce synthetic bow hairs are not optimized yet. An improvement in this field could eventually yield to a