The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #138445   Message #3168713
Posted By: Arkie
10-Jun-11 - 09:31 PM
Thread Name: the oldest instrument still in use?
Subject: RE: the oldest instrument still in use?
There are a few people here in the Ozarks, including myself, who play a mouth bow or picking bow. Elsewhere it has been called a musical bow. Supposedly there are paintings on the wall of a cave in southern France which date to about 15,000 BC that depict someone playing a mouth bow. I am curious about what might turn up here on the instrument.