Fuck Yeah Brown University

mickjphil:

In his history of the violin, Yehudi Menuhin considers the bow’s origins as a weapon, comparing the tension in a hunting bow that propels an arrow, and the tension of horsehair drawn across strings that brings maple and spruce to life.

Included is an engraving by Jean Baptiste Debret, Cabocle, the Indian Archer, 1834, courtesy of the John Carter Brown Library, Brown University.

First ever Fuck Yeah John Carter Brown!