About the product:

→ One-string mouth bow - 'Throat flap' instrument

• Functioning like a jaw harp, the resonating chamber is the oral cavity.
  

🌍 Origin: South America

📐 Dimensions: 70 centimeters

⚖️ Weight: 0.05 kilograms

🧬 Material: Wood and rope

🎶 Sound type: Clear, high to medium

📦 Packaging: Individually

🎁 Ideal for giving as a gift or treating yourself!

👉 A 70-centimeter mouth bow (or archet à bouche, in French) is a simple, traditional musical instrument, often used in ancient or indigenous music.

🔍 What is a mouth bow?

Here's what this size entails and what you need to know: It is a single-stringed instrument, often shaped like a bow, similar to a hunting bow.

It is played with the mouth, which serves as a sound box. The musician varies the sounds by changing the shape of his mouth. It is common in certain African, Native American, and South American cultures.

📏 Length of 70 cm

A 70cm mouth bow is relatively short (some can be 1 meter or more).

This has several consequences:

Pitch: The shorter the string, the higher the sound.

String tension: It should be less tight to avoid a sound that is too high or brittle.

Portability: Easy to carry, good option for demonstrations or children.

🪵 Basic construction

Here are the items needed to make or understand a mouth bow of this size:

Bow: a curved branch (bamboo, hazel, acacia, etc.) 70 cm long.

String: A guitar string, made of nylon, horsehair, or even fine wire.

Mouth: used as a sound box; there is often no wooden box.

Sometimes a resonator is added or the string is lightly struck to produce a sound (or a small stick is used like a bow).

📝 Example of use

A musician places the bow against their mouth, plucks or rubs the string, and modulates the sound by opening and closing their mouth. The changing shape creates astonishing harmonics.