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  2. Bowing - Wikipedia

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    A profound bow is a deep bow from the waist, and is often done as a substitution for genuflection. In Eastern Orthodoxy, there are several degrees of bowing, each with a different meaning. Strict rules exist as to which type of a bow should be used at any particular time. The rules are complicated and are not always carried out in all parishes.

  3. Bowed string instrument - Wikipedia

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    Bowed string instruments are a subcategory of string instruments that are played by a bow rubbing the strings. The bow rubbing the string causes vibration which the instrument emits as sound. Despite the numerous specialist studies devoted to the origin of bowing, the origin of bowing remains unknown.

  4. String instrument - Wikipedia

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    Bowed instruments pose a challenge to instrument builders, as compared with instruments that are only plucked (e.g., guitar), because on bowed instruments, the musician must be able to play one string at a time if they wish. As such, a bowed instrument must have a curved bridge that makes the "outer" strings lower in height than the "inner ...

  5. Bow - Wikipedia

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    Bow may also refer to: Bow (watercraft), the foremost part of a ship or boat; Bow (position), the rower seated in the bow of a racing shell; Knots.

  6. Bow (music) - Wikipedia

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    A cello bow. In music, a bow (/ b oʊ /) is a tensioned stick which has hair (usually horse-tail hair) coated in rosin (to facilitate friction) affixed to it.It is moved across some part (generally some type of strings) of a musical instrument to cause vibration, which the instrument emits as sound.

  7. Hurdy-gurdy - Wikipedia

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    The hurdy-gurdy is a string instrument that produces sound by a hand-crank-turned, rosined wheel rubbing against the strings. The wheel functions much like a violin (or nyckelharpa) bow, and single notes played on the instrument sound similar to those of a violin.

  8. Prostration - Wikipedia

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    This traditional form is being replaced by a more informal bow and touching the fingertips to the floor in front of an elder with one hand, while bending slightly at the knee. The female form of the greeting is the "ìkúnlẹ̀", a form of kneeling where the younger party bows to one or both knees in front of an elder relative or community ...

  9. Rebab - Wikipedia

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    This rabāb is the ancestor of many European bowed instruments, including the rebec and the lyra, [3] though not of bowed instruments in the lyre family such as the crwth, jouhikko, talharpa and gue. This article will only concentrate on the spike-fiddle Rebab, which usually consists of a small, usually rounded body, the front of which is ...