#mouthbow

"Musician and storyteller David Holt onstage with Josh Goforth in 2016, sharing the story behind the mouthbow and his original song, "The Drovers".

This clip is an excerpt from a live episode of David Holt's State of Music, which ran for six seasons on PBS."

Buffy photographed by Arthur Schatz in New York, 1965

"The mouthbow, like the drum, is found in many parts of the world, particularly wherever people use bows and arrows for hunting. I guess that sooner or later the musician in the group figures out how to make music on a weapon... Although simple, it is intriguing because of the ability to play harmonics with it, just by the way you change the shape of your mouth while plucking the string."