Bow Technique

Yiorgos Kaloudis believes that Classical Cretan Lyra is defined by the bow technique. 

He uses a bow of Early Music designed originally for Viola d’ Amore. Having studied the classical technique of the modern bow and being a connoisseur and scholar of the baroque bow of the J.S. Bach time, he uses a combined technique of both.

BOW

After a long research and study, Yiorgos selected an original copy of a baroque bow, (for Viola d'Amore or baroque violin), designed and crafted especially for him with the necessary technical improvements, by the French bow maker Sylvie Masson in Paris.

BOW TECHNIQUES

By using an original baroque bow, Yiorgos managed to notably increase the Dynamic range of the instrument.

Yiorgos's uses the following classical bow techniques on the Classical Cretan Lyra: 

• The 18th-Century bow stroke

• Dynamics

• Double Stops

• Chords

• Détaché

• Legato

• Martelé

• Collé

• Spiccato

• Sautillé

• Jeté

• Louré (Portato)

• Tremolo

• Col legno

• Fouetté

• Shuffle

• Staccato

• Sul Ponticello

• Flautato

• Pizzicato

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For the above techniques he extracted information from the following bibliography:

Michel Corrette: “Thèorique et Pratique Pour Apprendre en peu de temps le Violoncelle dans sa Perfection”, (Paris 1741)

Francesco Gemini: The Art of Playing the Violin” (London 1751)

Johann Joachim Quants: “Versuch einer Anweisung die Flöte traversiere zu spielen” (Berlin 1752)

Leopold Mozart: “Versuch einer gründlichen Violinschule” (Augsburg 1756)

Giuseppe Tartini: “Traité des agréments de la musique” (Published in French translation in 1771)

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