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n. (context music English) movement from the frog to the tip on the bow of a stringed instrument
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A down-bow is a type of stroke used when bowing a musical instrument, most often a string instrument. The player performs the indicated note by drawing the bow downward or to the right across the instrument, moving its point of contact from the frog toward the tip of the bow. This technique is indicated by a notated symbol resembling a small bracket over the note.
Usage examples of "down bow".
He shifted the canvas bag that carried his broken-down bow to a more comfortable position, wondering, not for the first time, what sort of creatures chose to make the mounds of junk their home.
She was an old ship with a straight up-and-down bow and a square, boxlike shape to her superstructure.
Pitt turned and gazed down at the Wallace as Butera very carefully backed the tug toward the Titanic's old straight up-and-down bow until he was less than a hundred feet away.
Designed with an old straight-up-and-down bow, the maboganytrimmed yacht displaced a hundred tons and measured 110 feet in length with a beam of twenty feet.
Designed with the old straight-up and-down bow, the mahogany-trimmed yacht displaces one hundred tons and measures one hundred ten feet in length with a beam of twenty feet.
Although her hull was slender with its old-fashioned straight-up-and-down bow and graceful champagne-glass stern, her superstructure had the look of a child's erector set gone wild.