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  1. musical bownoun

    A simple musical instrument consisting of a string supported by a flexible wooden bearer.

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  1. Musical bow

    The musical bow (bowstring or string bow, a subset of bar zithers) is a simple string instrument used by a number of South African peoples, which is also found in the Americas via slave trade. 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. It can be played with the hands or a wooden stick or branch. It is uncertain if the musical bow developed from the hunting bow, though the San or Bushmen people of the Kalahari Desert do convert their hunting bows to musical use.Types of bow include mouth-resonated string bow, earth-resonated string bow, and gourd-resonated string bow.

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  1. musical bow

    The musical bow is a simple string musical instrument present in most archaic cultures as well as many in the present day. It consists of a string supported by a flexible stick 1.5 to 10 feet long, and strung end to end with a taut cord. Usually made out of wood. Often, it is a normal archery bow used for music rather than as a weapon. Although the bow is now thought of as a weapon, it is not clear whether it was used in this way originally. Cave paintings in southern France dated to around 15,000 BCE which would approximately be 13,000 to 15,000 years ago from the present day, display a bow being used as a musical instrument, so this use certainly has a long history. Musical bows are still used in a number of cultures today, almost all over the world. In the United States the musical bow is primarily found in the Appalachian Mountains, where it is called a mouthbow or mouth bow. The usual way to make the bow sound is to pluck the string, although sometimes a subsidiary bow is used to scrape the string, much as on a violin. The Onavillu of Kerala sounds when struck with a thin stick. Unlike string instruments used in classical music, however, they do not have a built-in resonator, although resonators may be made to work with the bow in a number of ways.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of musical bow in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of musical bow in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

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