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It consists of a single string of <a href="/wiki/Baling_wire" title="Baling wire">baling wire</a> tensioned between two nails on a board over a glass bottle, which is used both as a <a href="/wiki/Bridge_(instrument)" title="Bridge (instrument)">bridge</a> and as a means to amplify the instrument's sound. </p><p>It was traditionally considered a starter or children's instrument in the <a href="/wiki/Deep_South" title="Deep South">Deep South</a>, especially in the <a href="/wiki/African_American" class="mw-redirect" title="African American">African American</a> community, and is rarely heard outside the rural South. It may have been influenced to some degree by <a href="/wiki/Africa" title="Africa">West African</a> instruments.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Other nicknames for this instrument include "jitterbug" or "one-string", while an <a href="/wiki/Ethnomusicologist" class="mw-redirect" title="Ethnomusicologist">ethnomusicologist</a> would formally call it a "<a href="/wiki/Monochord" title="Monochord">monochord</a> <a href="/wiki/Zither" title="Zither">zither</a>". </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Origins">Origins</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Diddley_bow&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Origins"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The diddley bow derives from instruments used in the <a href="/wiki/Sahel" title="Sahel">Sahel</a> region of <a href="/wiki/West_Africa" title="West Africa">West Africa</a>, in places such as northern Nigeria and Mali.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There, they were often played by children, one beating the string with sticks and the other changing the pitch by moving a slide up and down. The instrument was then developed as a children's toy by slaves in the United States. They were first documented in the rural South by researchers in the 1930s.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The diddley bow was traditionally considered an "entry-level" instrument, normally played by adolescent boys, who then graduate to a "normal" <a href="/wiki/Guitar" title="Guitar">guitar</a> if they show promise on the diddley bow. However currently, the diddley bow is also played by professional players as a solo as well as an accompaniment instrument.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>The diddley bow is significant to <a href="/wiki/Blues" title="Blues">blues</a> music in that many blues guitarists got their start playing it as children, as well as the fact that, like the <a href="/wiki/Slide_guitar" title="Slide guitar">slide guitar</a>, it is played with a slide. However, because it was considered a children's instrument, few musicians continued to play the diddley bow once they reached adulthood. The diddley bow is therefore not well represented in recordings.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Construction">Construction</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Diddley_bow&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Construction"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444" /><table class="box-Unreferenced_section plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Unreferenced" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>does not <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">cite</a> any <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">sources</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Diddley_bow" title="Special:EditPage/Diddley bow">improve this section</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a>. Unsourced material may be challenged and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Burden_of_evidence" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">removed</a>.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">November 2018</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The diddley bow 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. A glass bottle is usually used as the bridge, which helps amplify the sound. Some diddley bows have an added resonator box under the bridge, and are essentially single-string <a href="/wiki/Cigar_box_guitar" title="Cigar box guitar">cigar box guitars</a>. Some recent diddley bows are electrified with <a href="/wiki/Pickup_(music_technology)" title="Pickup (music technology)">pickups</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notable_users">Notable users</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Diddley_bow&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Notable users"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>One notable performer of the instrument was the <a href="/wiki/Mississippi" title="Mississippi">Mississippi</a> blues musician <a href="/wiki/Lonnie_Pitchford" title="Lonnie Pitchford">Lonnie Pitchford</a>, who used to demonstrate the instrument by stretching a wire between two nails hammered into the wood of a vertical beam making up part of the front porch of his home. Pitchford's headstone, placed on his grave in 2000 by the <a href="/wiki/Mt._Zion_Memorial_Fund" class="mw-redirect" title="Mt. Zion Memorial Fund">Mt. Zion Memorial Fund</a>, is actually designed with a playable diddley bow on the side as requested by Pitchford's family.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:DiddleyBow.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/DiddleyBow.jpg/220px-DiddleyBow.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/DiddleyBow.jpg/330px-DiddleyBow.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/DiddleyBow.jpg/440px-DiddleyBow.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="685" /></a><figcaption>An electric diddley bow</figcaption></figure> <p>Other notable traditional players include Lewis Dotson, Glen Faulkner, <a href="/wiki/Jessie_Mae_Hemphill" title="Jessie Mae Hemphill">Jessie Mae Hemphill</a>, Compton Jones, <a href="/wiki/Eddie_%22One_String%22_Jones" title="Eddie "One String" Jones">Eddie "One String" Jones</a>, <a href="/wiki/Napoleon_Strickland" title="Napoleon Strickland">Napoleon Strickland</a>, Moses Williams, <a href="/wiki/Super_Chikan" title="Super Chikan">James "Super Chikan" Johnson</a> and <a href="/wiki/One_String_Sam" title="One String Sam">One String Sam</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Willie Joe Duncan was also notable for his work with a large electrified diddley bow he called a <a href="/wiki/Unitar_(Music)" class="mw-redirect" title="Unitar (Music)">Unitar</a>. Some members of the Motown band "The Funk Brothers" are said to have learned to play the guitar on the diddley bow. <a href="/wiki/Buddy_Guy" title="Buddy Guy">Buddy Guy</a> learned to play music on a two-string homemade diddley bow before getting his first guitar (a Harmony acoustic). As a child, blues musician <a href="/wiki/Elmore_James" title="Elmore James">Elmore James</a> describes using a diddley bow: he "plucked a wire strung on the wall of his house while sliding a bottle along it to vary the pitch."<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Recent performers who use similar instruments include <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a>-based <a href="/wiki/Jazz_piano" title="Jazz piano">jazz pianist</a> <a href="/wiki/Cooper-Moore" title="Cooper-Moore">Cooper-Moore</a>, American bluesman <a href="/wiki/Seasick_Steve" title="Seasick Steve">Seasick Steve</a>, <a href="/wiki/Samm_Bennett" title="Samm Bennett">Samm Bennett</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Danny_Kroha&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Danny Kroha (page does not exist)">Danny Kroha</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=One_String_Willie&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="One String Willie (page does not exist)">One String Willie</a>, Chicago-based musician Andy Slater a.k.a. Velcro Lewis,<sup id="cite_ref-VelcroLewis_PittsburgCP-2010_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-VelcroLewis_PittsburgCP-2010-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and Chicago-based percussionist <a href="/w/index.php?title=Coco_Elysses&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Coco Elysses (page does not exist)">Coco Elysses</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coco_Elysses" class="extiw" title="de:Coco Elysses">de</a>]</span>.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Jack_White_(musician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Jack White (musician)">Jack White</a> makes one at the beginning of the movie <i><a href="/wiki/It_Might_Get_Loud" title="It Might Get Loud">It Might Get Loud</a></i>, then after playing it quips "Who says you need to buy a guitar?". Seasick Steve recorded a tribute to his diddley bow, via his song "Diddley Bo" from his 2009 album, <i><a href="/wiki/Man_From_Another_Time" class="mw-redirect" title="Man From Another Time">Man From Another Time</a>.</i> <sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Filmography">Filmography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Diddley_bow&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Filmography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444" /><table class="box-Unreferenced_section plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Unreferenced" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>does not <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">cite</a> any <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">sources</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Diddley_bow" title="Special:EditPage/Diddley bow">improve this section</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a>. Unsourced material may be challenged and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Burden_of_evidence" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">removed</a>.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">November 2018</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <ul><li><i>American Patchwork: Songs and Stories of America</i>, part 3: "The Land Where the Blues Began" (1990). Written, directed, and produced by <a href="/wiki/Alan_Lomax" title="Alan Lomax">Alan Lomax</a>; developed by the Association for Cultural Equity at <a href="/wiki/Columbia_University" title="Columbia University">Columbia University</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hunter_College" title="Hunter College">Hunter College</a>. North Carolina Public TV; A Dibb Direction production for Channel Four.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/It_Might_Get_Loud" title="It Might Get Loud">It Might Get Loud</a></i>, a 2008 documentary about the careers and influences of prominent <a href="/wiki/Rock_music" title="Rock music">rock</a> guitarists, features <a href="/wiki/Jack_White" title="Jack White">Jack White</a> building a diddley bow from scratch and playing a tune on it.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Discography">Discography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Diddley_bow&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Discography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Louis Dotson - "Sitting on Top of the World" on <i>Bothered All the Time</i>, Southern Culture SC 1703<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Willie Joe (Duncan) and His Unitar – The track "Unitar Rock," is available on <i>Teen Beat Vol 4.</i>, Ace CDCHD 655.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> "Twitchy" and "Cherokee Dance" are available on <i>The Specialty Story</i>, Specialty 5SPCD-4412-2.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Glen Faulkner – "Cotton Pickin' Blues," "Louisiana Blues," "Glory, Glory, Hallelujah," "Get Right Church And Lets Go Home," on <i>The Spirit Lives On: Deep South Country Blues and Spirituals in the 1990s</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Hot Fox HF-CD-005 (German CD, now out of print).</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jessie_Mae_Hemphill" title="Jessie Mae Hemphill">Jessie Mae Hemphill</a> – two tracks (one accompanied by Compton Jones) on <i>Heritage of the Blues: Shake It, Baby</i>, HighTone HCD 8156.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Two tracks (accompanied by Compton Jones and Glen Faulkner) on <i>Get Right Blues</i>, Inside Sounds ISC-0519.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Compton Jones – One track, "Shake 'Em On Down," on <i>Afro-American Folk Music from Tate and Panola Counties, Mississippi</i>, Rounder 1515 (CD).<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> With booklet notes by diddley bow scholar, Dr. David Evans.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eddie_%22One_String%22_Jones" title="Eddie "One String" Jones">Eddie "One String" Jones</a> – <i>One String Blues</i>, Takoma Records CDTAK 1023.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Nine tracks, the first one an interview of Eddie Jones where he tells how he built his instrument. The booklet notes includes a drawing and some photographs of his instrument and of him playing.</li> <li><i>The Almanac of Bad Luck</i> 2009 by Tijuana Hercules.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lonnie_Pitchford" title="Lonnie Pitchford">Lonnie Pitchford</a> – Pitchford was another diddley bow master. He can be heard on four tracks on <i>National Downhome Blues Festival Volume One</i>, Southland SCD-21, "Train Coming Around the Bend," "My Babe," "Mary Had a Little Lamb" and "One-String Boogie." Two tracks on <i>All Around Man</i>, Rooster R2629;<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> "Real Rock Music: Crawlin' Kingsnake" and "My Babe." One track on <i>Living Country Blues</i>, Evidence ECD 26105-2 ("Boogie Chillen"). Also, another "One-String Boogie," and "My Baby Walked Away" on <i>American Folk Blues Festival '83</i>; "Johnny Stole An Apple," <i>Living Country Blues USA - Volume 7: Afro-American Blues Roots</i>; "My Baby Walked Away" on <i>Living Country Blues USA - Volume 9: Mississippi Moan</i> and (yet another) "One String Boogie" on <i>Living Country Blues USA - Volume 10: Country Boogie</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Napoleon_Strickland" title="Napoleon Strickland">Napoleon Strickland</a> – One track, "Key to the Blues," on <i>Bottleneck Blues</i>, Testament 5021 (CD).<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (This same cut also appears on the CD <i>Africa and the Blues</i>).</li> <li><a href="/wiki/One_String_Sam" title="One String Sam">One String Sam</a> – Two cuts ("I Need $100" and "I Got to Go") from the 1973 <a href="/wiki/Ann_Arbor_Blues_and_Jazz_Festival" title="Ann Arbor Blues and Jazz Festival">Ann Arbor Blues and Jazz Festival</a><sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> on <i>Motor City Blues / Please Mr. Foreman</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Schoolkids' Records, SKR2101-2. Two tracks on <i>Rural Blues Vol 1 (1934–1956)</i>, Document Records B000000J8B ("I Need $100" and "My Baby, Oooo" (studio versions).<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>One String Willie - Seven tracks on <i>A Store-Bought Guitar Just Won't Do,</i> 10 tracks on <i>You Gotta Hit the String Right to Make the Music Swing</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Moses Williams – four tracks on a double-LP anthology of Florida blues produced by the Florida Folklife Program; <i>Drop on Down In Florida</i>, Florida Folklife LP 102-103. A double-CD-with-hardback book edition of this double-LP set has been released, adding ten further tracks.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Two CDs from the Florida Folklife Collection present Williams playing and singing "Which Way Did My Baby Go?" and "Apple Farm Blues".<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Velcro Lewis:<sup id="cite_ref-VelcroLewis_PittsburgCP-2010_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-VelcroLewis_PittsburgCP-2010-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <ul><li><i>The Oven's On</i> 2007 by Velcro Lewis and His 100 Proof Band.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>The Bronze Age</i> 2009 by the Velcro Lewis Group.</li> <li><i>White Magick Summer</i> 2010 by the Velcro Lewis Group.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Similar_instruments">Similar instruments</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Diddley_bow&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Similar instruments"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cigar_box_guitar" title="Cigar box guitar">Cigar box guitar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kontigi" title="Kontigi">Kontigi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Garaya_(lute)" title="Garaya (lute)">Garaya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Musical_bow" title="Musical bow">Musical bow</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ngoni_(instrument)" title="Ngoni (instrument)">Ngoni</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slide_guitar" title="Slide guitar">Slide guitar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Xalam" title="Xalam">Xalam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Washtub_bass" title="Washtub bass">Washtub bass</a> (gut bucket)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Diddley_bow&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bo_Diddley" title="Bo Diddley">Bo Diddley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Electric_blues" title="Electric blues">Electric blues</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Electric_guitar" title="Electric guitar">Electric guitar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Unitar_(instrument)" title="Unitar 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