Diddley Bows & Bo Diddly
One-string instruments out of Africa...
The jumping-off place for this BluesNotes on Diddley Bows is taken from Gerhard Kubik’s wonderful book, Africa & the Blues (University Press of Mississippi, 1999).
Writing about one-stringed instruments, Kubik cites David Evans's wonderful African-American One-Stringed Instruments (Evans, 1970) and goes on to note that:
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