Other options musical bows The bladder fiddle was a folk instrument used throughout Europe and in the Americas.

The traditional bowed instrument has been preserved into the 21st century in Lithuania as the pusline[5] (and possibly Estonia and Flanders), producing sustained or rhythmic droning notes.

Versions in Poland, Lithuania and the Netherlands had as many as three strings, but pictures of the Flanders fiddle and the Nocturnal Serenade by Jan Steen show monochords (single-stringed instruments).

Some variants of the instrument show a flexible stick, making the bowed-instrument a musical bow.

While the pig-bladder instrument can still be found in Lithuania today, in Holland the pig's bladder had been replaced by 1675 by a drum-like circle, wedged between the stick and a single gutstring, which resonated when the string was bowed.

That version, the bumbass, was illustrated in the painting Nocturnal Serendade, by Dutch painter Jan Steen.

This percussion version of the instrument is international, being used in Denmark (called the Rumsterstang or the krigsdjaevel, lit.

'devil's fiddles'), replacing the pig's bladder with a tin can for the resonator, and bowing with a notched stick.

The Stumpf fiddle became a percussion instrument, beaten with a stick and stamped on the ground to shake attached wrattles, bells and cymbals.

[13] In Poland there is a variant that started as a costume accessory and has become a devil's violin, called the Diabelskie skrzypce [pl].

The Slavic peoples have a musical bow (Słowiański łuk muzyczny in Polish) which is pictured as having three strings (trzy struny).

Common features typically include a spring-loaded rubber base (much like a pogo stick), with percussion instruments such as bells and wood blocks attached.