A Zululand single-string friction-bow. Since industrialisation the bows are normally made using recycled oil-tin as resonator, although this version employs a large iselwa gourd and a wire string from a bundled sling-cable. The bow is played by means of a shorter, tensioned usinga bow to elicit scale pitches from the harmonics of the tuned single-string. It is typically played in accompaniment to indigenous melodies sung in the southern Bantu languages of isiZulu, seSotho, isiXhosa and isiSwati