The first string instruments and the human ingenuity behind them
The Musical Bow: A Sonic Experiment in Prehistory The earliest string instruments may have been musical bows—essentially a flexible stick with a single string stretched taut across it. Archaeological and ethnographic evidence suggests that these instruments appeared over 10,000 years ago in Africa and parts of Eurasia. Some anthropologists theorize that the musical bow was […]
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