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The diddley bow is significant to Blues music in that many blues guitarists got their start playing it as children, as well as the fact that, like the Slide Guitar , it is played with a slide.

A notable performer of the instrument was the Mississippi blues musician Lonnie Pitchford , 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. Another performer who uses the instrument extensively is the New York City -based jazz pianist Cooper-Moore .


FILMOGRAPHY

  • ''American Patchwork: Songs and Stories of America'', part 3: "The Land Where the Bues Began" (1990). Written, directed, and produced by Alan Lomax ; developed by the Association for Cultural Equity at Columbia University and Hunter College. North Carolina Public TV; A Dibb Direction production for Channel Four.



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