Music bow also now in India and Pakistan as malunga is a single-stringed music bow

The musical bow is a simple string instrument musical instrument consisting of a string supported by a flexible string bearer, usually made out of wood. The music bow where brought to India with The Siddi, whose ancestors arrived in Pakistan and India from the 11th to the 19th century due to slavery.

The musical bow is generally played on its own, as a solo instrument, although in capoeira it is the main part of a orchestra made of berimba, atabaque, pandeiro some capoeira schools also play agogo and reco reco.

The Brazilian berimbau the most usual type of resonator consists of a gourd attached to the back of the string bearer. This last method allows the size of the resonator to be varied as the musician desire.
The berimbau as we know in capoeira is a single-string percussion instrument, a musical bow, from Brazil. The berimbau's origins are not entirely clear, but there is not doubt on its African origin, as no Indigenous peoples in Brazil or European people use musical bows, and very similar instruments are played in the southern parts of Africa....

The Berimbau.

The berimbau has long been recognized as a symbol of Capoeira for long time. Before the instrument be introduced to capoeira it was used for sales people to call attention and sale they merchandise.