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Originally Posted by zeppelin101
The reason is that rosin, which is used to coat the bow (I know this because I also used to play viola) is a insulator, and excessive use of rosin will damage your pickups.
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This is entirely illogical. A non-magnetic insulator would be invisible to a pickup. Wax is a non-magnetic insulator, and as we know, pickups are literally drowned in wax, and emerge fully functional (I maintain the difference in sound is due to the elimination of vibravtion within the coils, btw). Unless the rosin acted as a solvent on the lacquer on the winding wire, there is absolutely no way it could hurt a pickup.
As for why not to use a bow on a guitar, how about "because Jimmy Page used that trick completely up."