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== In other places == [[File:Richard Nunns 22.jpg|thumb|upright|right|[[Richard Nunns]] playing a [[Māori music|Māori]] musical bow]] The most popular musical bow today is the [[Brazil]]ian adaptation of the musical bow, the [[berimbau]], most commonly associated with the [[Capoeira#As a game|jogo de capoeira]]. [[Kse diev]], a gourd resonated "musical bow cum stick" whose [[String (music)|string]] is made out of [[copper]], is used in Cambodia and is considered one of the oldest Cambodian instruments, with bas-reliefs going back to the 12th century AD. Has been thought of as musical bow; under [[Hornbostel-Sachs]] classification, it is a "Musical bow cum stick" because it has only one curved end to flex.<ref name=system>{{cite journal |title= Classification of Musical Instruments: Translated from the Original German by Anthony Baines and Klaus P. Wachsmann |author1-first= Erich M. |author1-last= von Hornbostel |author2-first=Curt |author2-last= Sachs |journal= The Galpin Society Journal |volume= 14 |date= March 1961| pages= 20–21 |doi= 10.2307/842168 |jstor=842168}}</ref> Under Hornbostel-Sachs, musical bows are defined as flexible and curved string bearers or as stick zithers with both ends flexible and curved.<ref name=system/> [[Malunga]], a musical bow made of [[bamboo]], [[gut string]]s, and a [[coconut]] gourd is used by the [[Siddi]] people of [[India]], of African origin. [[Belembaotuyan]] is found in Guam, probably introduced through trade between [[South America]] and [[Asia]] in the nineteenth century. [[Bobre]], musical bow of [[Mauritius]] and [[Réunion]]. Kunkulkawe is the name of a musical bow found among the [[Mapuche]] people in [[Chile]] and [[Argentina]]. Piompirintzi is the name of a musical bow found among the [[Ashaninka]] people in Peru. Latajkiaswolé is the name of a musical bow found among the [[Wichi]], [[Pilaga]], and other tribes of the [[Gran Chaco]] region of [[South America]]. In the [[United States]] a musical bow is primarily found in the [[Appalachian Mountains]], where it is called a "mouthbow" or "mouth bow". In northwestern Mexico, the [[Tepehuán]] Indians of [[Durango]] use the musical bow during their mitote. The Tepehuán's musical bow has a gourd attached to it. The [[kalumbu]] is played by the [[Tonga people (Zambia and Zimbabwe)|Tonga]] and [[Ila people|Ila]] people of [[Zambia]] and [[Zimbabwe]]. The ''ku'' is a [[Māori culture|Maori]] instrument from [[New Zealand]], made of [[Prumnopitys taxifolia|matai]] wood and a fibre string, and is tapped with a rod.<ref>{{cite book |last=Best|first=Elston|date=2005|title=Games and Pastimes of the Maori|url=http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-BesGame-t1-body-d9-d2-d5.html|pages=313–4|access-date=2015-01-22}}</ref> The [[ukeke]] is a three-stringed musical bow from [[Hawaii]], played using the mouth as a resonating chamber. The [[Yelatáj chos woley]] is a musical bow (played with another bow), from the [[Wichí]] culture of the Argentinian [[Gran Chaco]]. In the Caribbean, on the island of [[Curaçao]], the benta is a one-stringed musical bow, played using the mouth as a resonating chamber. Most probably brought to the island by Africans from Ghana, Angola, Nigeria during the slave trade, it is played as a leading instrument in "muzik di zumbi", ghost music (zumbi means ghost).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPb_i6VcOTw|title=Isocco Performance @ Curacao International Song Festival 1987|access-date=19 April 2021|publisher=[[YouTube]]}}</ref> The name refers to the spooky atmosphere on the plantations since there was no electricity, and the hauling wind carries the sound of the music in all directions. It is mostly accompanied by drum, hoe and "wiri" (scraper of a serrated piece of iron). The Curaçaoan benta resembles the [[Brazil]]ian [[berimbao]], the [[India]]n [[malunga]], the [[Hawaiïan]] [[ukeke]], and string bows of several [[Africa]]n countries. A variant called the "whizzing bow", which is swung with the arm in a circle is played in Central America, China, Indonesia, and west Africa.<ref>[https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000030238 Whizzing Bow]. [[Oxford Music Online]], published January 20, 2001.</ref>
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