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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 resonator. It was bowed with either a notched stick or a horsehair bow. [1] The folk instrument was historically played by "wandering musicians" and beggars up to the early 19th century.
The viola caipira is a Brazilian folk instrument. A folk instrument is a traditional musical instrument that has remained largely restricted to traditional folk music , and is not usually used in the classical music or other elite and formal musical genres of the culture concerned, though related instruments may be.
Metis fiddling can be described as the incorporation of First Nations, Scottish, and French-Canadian rhythms, but with a unique Metis beat. [2] David Chartrand (president of the Manitoba Métis Foundation) was interviewed in a 2006 documentary by John Barnard, and emphasizes that the Métis fiddle tradition is an oral tradition [3] which cannot be taught in school.
A 1919 Kaval. Bone ferrules decorated on the lathe with turned grooves and bird's eye decorations are applied with a preshaped cutting tool. While typically made of wood (cornel cherry, apricot, plum, boxwood, mountain ash, etc.), kavals are also made from water buffalo horn, Arundo donax Linnaeus 1753 (Persian reed), metal and plastic.
The bones, also known as rhythm bones, are a folk instrument that, in their original form, consists of a pair of animal bones, but may also be played on pieces of wood or similar material. Sections of large rib bones and lower leg bones are the most commonly used bones, although wooden sticks shaped like true bones are now more often used.
The Acholi instrument is a rectangular instrument, about 51.5 cm (20.25 in) long with seven nylon strings. [43] The instrument has a "bridge" at each end. [43] Images of the modern instrument show that a wood top has been added, converting the trough zither to a box zither. [12] [11] There are at least two pentatonic tunings used by the Acholi ...
The duduk is a double reed instrument with ancient origins, having existed since at least the fifth century, while there are Armenian scholars who believe it existed more than 1,500 years before that. [11] The earliest instruments similar to the duduk's present form are made of bone or entirely of cane.
The instrument was first introduced in a folktale in the 16th century, although it was not clearly described until the 18th century by Jón Ólafsson, who described the instrument as a cavernous box. Later in the 18th century, the Swedish explorer Uno von Troil visited Iceland in 1722, where he wrote about a langspil and fiddle and noted that ...