Certain traits of the Baroque bow have persisted in classical bowmaking. Its use in the classical era alongside -what are now considered - classical bows , gives reason to explore some hidden similarities. 

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As a rule baroque bows are shorter, but the length of working hair extends around the frog into the bow.

In a classical bow the open frog conserves this extra working length, until the idea of a wedged-in ribbon

cuts it short by some three centimeters at the frog,

distinctly altering its give and take in lower half playing.

 

It is known that James Tubbs in his bows, for reasons unknown,calculated the amount of hair able to

pass through the silver ferrule without a wedge, thus preserving to some extent the open frog idea into the 20th

century.

 

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