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  2. Bowstring - Wikipedia

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    The string may be secured to the bow by a knot at each end, usually a timber hitch, also known as the bowyer's knot. The traditional "Flemish" string has a laid-in loop at one end, which is easier than most knots to fit over the nock of the bow when stringing and unstringing.

  3. Bow draw - Wikipedia

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    A bow draw in archery is the method or technique of pulling back the bowstring [1] to store energy for the bow to shoot an arrow. The most common method [ citation needed ] in modern target archery is the Mediterranean draw, which has long been the usual method in European archery.

  4. Pinaka veena - Wikipedia

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    However, where the rudra veena has multiple strings and frets, the pinaka vina had only one string made of wire and no frets. [1] Where the rudra veena was a stick zither (with a straight and rigid bar for the instrument's body), the pinaka vīnā was a musical bow (its body a long stick turned up at each end). The instrument was sounded with a ...

  5. List of knots - Wikipedia

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    Savoy knot a.k.a. figure-eight knot, Flemish knot – decorative, heraldic knot; Shear lashing; Sheepshank – used to shorten or store rope; Sheet bend – joins two ropes together; Shoelace knot – commonly used for tying shoelaces and bow-ties; Shroud knot – a multi-strand bend knot used to join two ends of laid (or twisted) rope together

  6. Musical bow - Wikipedia

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    The musical bow (bowstring or string bow, a subset of bar zithers) is a simple string instrument used by a number of African peoples as well as Indigenous peoples of the Americas. [1] It consists of a flexible, usually wooden, stick 1.5 to 10 feet (0.5 to 3 m) long, and strung end to end with a taut cord, usually metal.

  7. Ravanahatha - Wikipedia

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    A neck of wood or bamboo is attached, carrying between one and four or more peg-tuned strings of gut, hair or steel, strung over a bridge. Some examples may have several sympathetic strings. The bow is usually of horsehair; examples vary in length.