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    The diddley bow is a single-stringed American instrument which influenced the development of the blues sound. It consists of a single string of baling...
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    among scholars is that the diddley bow is derived from the monochord zithers of central Africa. On November 20, 1955, Diddley appeared on the popular television...
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  • tranh (Vietnam) Ðàn Tre (Vietnam) Đàn tú (Vietnam) Đàn tỳ bà (Vietnam) Diddley bow (United States) Dombra (Eastern Europe and Central Asia) Domra (Russia)...
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  • was an American Detroit blues musician, who specialised in playing the diddley bow. Details of his life are scant, but he recorded two tracks described...
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    instruments such as the stick dulcimer (sometimes called a dulcitar) and the diddley bow. He also works occasionally in electronic music, using synthesizers,...
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  • electric guitar, Pitchford was skilled at the one-string guitar and diddley bow, a one-string instrument of African origin, as well as the double bass...
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    against a plucked string goes back to the diddley bow derived from a one-stringed African instrument. The diddley bow is believed to be one of the ancestors...
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    will bend the pitch of the string to higher or lower notes. Đàn bầu Diddley bow Traditional Chinese musical instruments "Duxianqin". Cultural China....
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    grandchildren, and ten great-grandchildren. King's first instrument was a diddley bow. Next, he built himself a cigar box guitar, and eventually he bought...
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    Piano, written in 1898, which contains blue third and seventh notes. The Diddley bow (a homemade one-stringed instrument found in parts of the American South...
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  • making music at the age of 12, using a simple one-string instrument (diddley bow, or jitterbug) strung on a shack wall. As a teen he performed at dances...
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    stringed instruments Đàn tỳ bà chordophones 3 Vietnam stringed instruments Diddley bow chordophones 3 United States stringed instruments Dihu chordophones 3...
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    Occupation(s) Musician songwriter recording engineer Instruments Vocals guitar diddley bow stomp box banjo harmonica Labels Caroline International Atlantic Warner...
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    blues musician. He began learning to play the guitar using a two-string diddley bow he made. Later he was given a Harmony acoustic guitar which, decades...
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    plays a cigar box ukulele on his 2017 video for "Come On Christmas". Diddley Bow Lowebow Jug band Washtub bass Luthier Kabosy Ramkie Hyman, Tony (1972)...
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    Berimbau (category Musical bows)
    musical bow that is commonly used in Brazil. It is also known as Sekitulege among the Baganda and Busoga. It consists of a single-stringed bow attached...
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    tam (Vietnam) Đàn tranh (Vietnam) Đàn tỳ bà (Vietnam) Daruan (China) Diddley bow (United States) Dombra (East Europe and Central Asia) Domra (Russia,...
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    experimenting with music using a sugarcane syrup bucket and a broom-wire diddley bow. Around 1947, he and the family moved to Pine Bluff, Arkansas, where...
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  • reverberating body like an acoustic guitar. Seasick Steve Brushy One String Diddley bow Ektara Whamola "Building a Unitar". Onestringwillie.com. Retrieved 23...
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  • Perfume, a novel by Tom Robbins Jitterbug Wireless, a mobile phone company Diddley bow, a musical instrument "Jitterbug", a song by Ellegarden "Jitterbuggin'"...
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  • I Want Candy (category Bow Wow Wow songs)
    Billboard Hot 100 chart. It is a famous example of a song that uses the Bo Diddley beat. "I Want Candy" was written by Bert Berns, Bob Feldman, Jerry Goldstein...
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    many instruments Cooper-Moore has built are a diddley-bow, a three-string fretless banjo, and a mouth bow. Cooper-Moore received the Lifetime Achievement...
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    2006. "Lonnie Pitchford Dies: The only recording artist who played the "diddley bow," has died of Aids". Blues News. October 11, 1998. Archived from the...
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  • Williams Luther Dickinson, guitarist for the North Mississippi Allstars Diddley bow Cigar box guitar Slide guitar Washtub bass "lowebow". Retrieved 30 November...
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  • Georgia include dirt-track driving, touring an Elvis museum & visiting a diddley bow artisan; a side trip to Texas has Ozzy & Jack serving as Honorary Race...
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    session with his Three Stringed Tranz Wonder he moved onto his one-string Diddley bow. During "Thunderbird" he selected a rain-soaked poncho-clad female member...
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  • Dinki Mini mourning ceremonies in Saint Mary Parish and Portland Parish. Diddley bow, a similar slide-monochord in the United States Maureen Warner-Lewis...
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    experience, as well as borrowing from the concepts of the gutbucket and the diddley bow. The Magic Boot is a scorpion-emblazoned cowboy boot, which is wired...
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    and began singing the blues in solitude. He eventually built himself a diddley bow on the side of his grandmother's house out of broom wire, two nails and...
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