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    musical bow, originally from Africa, that is now used in Brazil. Problems playing this file? See media help. The musical bow (bowstring or string bow...
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  • some type of strings) of a musical instrument to cause vibration, which the instrument emits as sound. The vast majority of bows are used with string instruments...
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    with a bow, like violins. In some keyboard instruments, such as the harpsichord, the musician presses a key that plucks the string. Other musical instruments...
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  • The Uhadi, a musical bow, is a traditional Southern African Xhosa musical instrument. It is a large unembraced musical bow which is attached to a resonator...
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    The ground-bow, also known as an earth-bow or ground harp, is a single-string bow-shaped folk musical instrument, classified as a chordophone. It is known...
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  • Two types of musical bow are common in Latvia: the spēles and the pūšļa vijole. The spēles is simply a primitive musical bow that can be plucked, or bowed...
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  • Umrhubhe Bow as Transmitter of Cultural Knowledge Among the AmaXhosa: An Interview with Latozi ‘Madosini’ Mpahleni". Journal of the Musical Arts in Africa...
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  • Musical symbols are marks and symbols in musical notation that indicate various aspects of how a piece of music is to be performed. There are symbols to...
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    The diddley bow is a single-stringed American instrument which influenced the development of the blues sound. It consists of a single string of baling...
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  • a rosette Bow tie, a type of necktie Pussy bow, a style of neckwear Bow (music), used to play a stringed instrument Musical bow, a musical instrument...
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    Berimbau (category Musical bows)
    Angolan musical bow that is commonly used in Brazil. It is also known as sekitulege among the Baganda and Busoga. It consists of a single-stringed bow attached...
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    This is a list of musical instruments, including percussion, wind, stringed, and electronic instruments. Celesta Crystallophone Glass Harmonica Glass...
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    in Réunion Creole, and traditionally accompanied by percussion and a musical bow. Maloya is a new form that has origins in the music of African and Malagasy...
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    Villu Paatu (category Indian musical instruments)
    Villu Paatu (English: Bow Song, Tamil: வில்லுப்பாட்டு), also known as Villadichampaatu, is an ancient form of musical story-telling method performed in...
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  • and musical bows. The string bearer is bar-shaped. 311.1 Musical bows – The string bearer is flexible (and curved) 311.11 Idiochord musical bows – The...
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    musical bow, and jaw harp. Recent research into usage wear and acoustics of stone artefacts has revealed a possible new class of prehistoric musical instrument...
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    Arched harp (category Indian musical instruments)
    Hornbostel-Sachs classification system for musical instruments, a type of harp. The instrument may also be called bow harp. With arched harps, the neck forms...
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    The bow frog is the end part of a stringed musical instrument's bow that encloses the mechanism responsible for tightening and holding the bow hair ribbon...
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    Bladder fiddle (category American musical instruments)
    Americas. The instrument was originally a simple large stringed fiddle (a musical bow) made with a long stick, one or more thick gut strings, and a pig's-bladder...
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  • Xhosa music. Xhosa traditional musicians imitate the sounds of their musical bows using their voices through the maneuvering of their tongues and shaping...
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    classified as a fiddle The idono, a musical bow consisting of a string (umurya) supported by a flexible wooden string bearer or bow (umuheto) The so-called diverse...
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  • "Bowing techniques" Rosin String instrument, section on "Bowing" Musical bow, musical instrument Raffin, Jean Francois; Millant, Bernard (2000). L'Archet...
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  • Azusa Yumi (category Musical bows)
    An azusa yumi (梓弓) is a sacred bow (yumi) used in certain Shinto rituals in Japan, as well as a Japanese musical bow, made from the wood of the Japanese...
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  • Segankuru (category Botswana musical instruments)
    The segankuru is a bowed trough zither, bar zither or musical bow, a string instrument found in Botswana and other areas of South Africa, and found under...
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  • 1940s as a jazz musician. Makhweyane: a single-stringed, gourd-resonated musical bow "Traditional Swazi Music, South Africa - Sound Clip - ninemsn Encarta"...
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    Pinaka veena (category Musical bows)
    pinnak + Hindi: वीणा veena) was an Indian musical instrument, a musical bow that was itself played with a bow. It has also been transliterated pinaki vina...
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    Bar zither (category Musical instruments)
    of musical bows and stick zithers. Musical bows have flexible ends, stick zithers are rigid or have only one flexed end. Bar zithers, whether musical bow...
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    Umuduri (category Musical bows)
    Rwandan stringed instrument. It is a musical bow consisting of a string supported by a flexible wooden string bearer or bow that is 125–135 cm in length. The...
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    depicts what some believe is a musical bow, a hunting bow used as a single-stringed musical instrument. From the musical bow, families of stringed instruments...
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    History of lute-family instruments (category History of musical instruments)
    hunters' bows as likely musical bows. One reason was that the oldest known musical bows were 10 feet long, useless for hunting, and that "musical bows were...
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