Awesome Tribal/flames Designed Berimbau - Medio/Gunga - Afro-Brazilian Musical Bow

Handcrafted traditional Afro-Brazilian style berimbau crafted by master berimbau maker Pererê to sound awesome, look great, and feel balanced in the hand. This berimbau has a gourd resonator - called a cabaca - which gives it a designation of a 'Medio' in the bataria of Capoeira

This berimbau is easily tuned to your personal needs and has a variety of ways to adjust the sound. It has been colored by hand with vibrant fiber dyes, with many hours spent woodburning beautiful lively geometric tribal-inspired designs onto its surface from top to bottom. It is constructed from a variety of natural materials finished in a durable clear lacquer which draws out the beauty of the natural materials used in its construction.

The bow is made of a resilient hardwood (not biriba wood - which is rapidly becoming endangered in Brazil do to over-harvesting practices). Pererê individually hand-harvests, dries, shapes, and properly mates each verga (bow) to a cabaca (gourd) resonator for maximum sound clarity and volume.

This wonderful berimbau is 59 inches tall when braced, the cabaca is 5 inches in diameter and it comes complete with playing stick (vaqueta), tempered steel music wire with cotton lashing cord, a round fretting stone (moeda), and handwoven caxixi basket rattle made of reed cane and guard shell - I personally make, shape, weave, carve, design, or forage for every part of the instrument, and every detail is carefully crafted.
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Shipping Notes: Berimbaus are shipped in two separate containers: a box, and a long tube. Each will have its own shipping tracking numbers.

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