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 Post subject: Who needs 6 strings ;-)
PostPosted: Fri May 15, 2009 9:20 am 
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Here's something a little different. I heard a guy playing this guitar at a local market, and was so impressed. I wondered over to have a chat and did a deal and bought it on the spot. 2 strings and no frets, and a beautifully turned brass slide...away you go...it's called a Diddly Bow
here's a guy playing a one string versionImage
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqgEjSttutk. This instrument is from the grass roots of the delta blues in the southern states of the USA.


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 Post subject: Re: Who needs 6 strings ;-)
PostPosted: Mon May 18, 2009 6:30 am 
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What a great video! I've seen a number of different 1 or 2 string instruments in my travels, but never one played like that. 8-)

In a Sussex recording studio, the owner had a Japanese instrument with a kind of round bowl and (IIRC) just one rather slack gut string and a fretless neck. You plucked it while sliding and pulling off on the neck and got very Japanese twanging sounds out of it.

I also have memories of when I was at school and a teacher demonstrated a strange single-stringed bowed instrument that had no body, but a neck with two pads that you head between your knees (seated) to play... and a brass horn!

I love these quirky, unusual instruments and it's great to actually see them played. :mrgreen:


PS: I've also got a 4-string mandolin that I bought in Nepal (I think). Nice to look at, but impossible to keep in tune and pretty much unplayable!

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 Post subject: Re: Who needs 6 strings ;-)
PostPosted: Mon May 18, 2009 6:37 am 
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Red Paul wrote:
I also have memories of when I was at school and a teacher demonstrated a strange single-stringed bowed instrument that had no body, but a neck with two pads that you head between your knees (seated) to play... and a brass horn!

Of course, having remembered this I just had to look it up. Isn't Google fantastic? :D


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