Apache fiddle

File:Apachefiddler.jpg musician playing the Apache fiddle, 1886, photo by A. Frank Randall[http://siris-archives.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=all&source=~!siarchives&uri=full=3100001~!33821~!0#focus "Portrait of Chasi, Bonito's Son..."] National Anthropological Archives. (retrieved 11 June 2010)]]

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The Apache fiddle (Apache: tsii' edo'a'tl, "wood that sings"){{cite book|title=Experimental Musical Instruments|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eWMIAQAAMAAJ|year=1995|publisher=Experimental Musical Instruments|page=34}} is a bowed string instrument used by the indigenous Apache people of the southwestern United States. The instrument consists of a plant stalk, such as that of the agave or mescal plant. One or sometimes two strings, often made of horse hair, are secured at both ends of the stalk, a bridge and nut added, and the string is played with a bow resined with pine pitch.{{cite news |url=https://www.abqjournal.com/438932/man-wants-to-reintroduce-the-apache-fiddle-which-has-few-makers-remaining.html/ |title=Man wants to reintroduce the Apache fiddle, which has few makers remaining |publisher=Albuquerque Journal |first=Jackie |last=Jadrnak |date=1 August 2014 |accessdate=24 October 2017}} The string is touched with the fingers to change its note. The Smithsonian Institution holds an Apache fiddle collected in 1875.American Indian art magazine Published by American Indian Art, Inc., 1980. Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized Dec 19, 2007. Page 28. In 1989 Apache fiddle maker Chesley Goseyun Wilson of Tucson, Arizona won a National Heritage Award.[http://www.arts.gov/honors/heritage/fellows/fellow.php?id=1989_13 1989 NEA National Heritage Fellow: Chesley Goseyun Wilson] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081005101621/http://www.arts.gov///honors/heritage/fellows/fellow.php?id=1989_13 |date=2008-10-05 }}, National Endowment for the Arts (USA)