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The diddley bow is an American string instrument of African origin. It is typically homemade, consisting usually of a wooden board and a single wire string stretched between two screws, and played by plucking while varying the pitch with a metal or glass slide held in the other hand. The diddley bow is significant to blues music in that many blues guitarists got their start playing it as... Read enhanced Wikipedia article

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Slide guitar The technique of using a slide on a string has been traced to a one-string toy-instrument: the "diddley bow," which resembles one-stringed African instruments.

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    Diddley bow

    The diddley bow is an American string instrument of African origin, probably developed from instruments found on the Ghana coast of west Africa. The diddley bow is rarely heard outside the rural south.
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    List of string instruments

    This is a list of string instruments categorized according to the technique used to produce sound, followed by a list of string instruments grouped by country or region of origin. ... Diddley bow (United States)
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    Plucked string instrument

    Plucked string instruments are a subcategory of string instruments that are played by plucking the strings. ... Diddley bow (United States)
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    Lonnie Pitchford

    Lonnie Pitchford (October 8, 1955 – November 8, 1998) was an American blues musician and instrument maker from Lexington, Mississippi. ... A diddley bow is featured on his headstone which was paid for by John Fogerty and Rooster Blues Records through the Mt. Zion Memorial Fund.
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    Duxianqin

    The duxianqin (独弦琴, pinyin: dúxiánqín; lit. "lone string zither") is a Chinese plucked string instrument with only one string. ... Diddley bow
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    Super Chikan

    James "Super Chikan" Johnson (born February 16, 1951, Darling, Mississippi) is an American blues musician, based in Clarksdale, Mississippi. ... At an early age, Johnson got his first rudimentary musical instrument, a "diddley bow", which was simply a piece of wood with a piece of baling wire stretched from end to end.
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    Monochord

    A monochord is an ancient musical and scientific laboratory instrument. ... Diddley bow
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    Blues

    Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre created primarily within the African-American communities in the Deep South of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and... ... The Diddley bow (a homemade one-stringed...
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    Buddy Guy

    George "Buddy" Guy (born July 30, 1936) is an American blues guitarist and singer. ... Born in Lettsworth, Louisiana, Guy grew up in Louisiana learning guitar on a two string diddley bow he made.
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    That 1 Guy

    Mike Silverman, better known as That 1 Guy, is an American musician based in Berkeley, California. ... The creation of the Magic Pipe was based on Silverman’s double bass experience, as well as borrowing from the concepts of the gutbucket and the diddley bow.

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