Last year, Brazil lost one of its most famous musicians: Naná Vasconcelos, who put an instrument called the berimbau on the world's musical map. It's a kind of bow with a gourd attached, and it is the ...

A string, a stick, a gourd and a stone are all it takes to make a berimbau, the traditional instrument of Brazil. The string attaches to the stick like a bow, which is attached at the bottom to a ...