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valiha

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use of bamboo

  • koto
    In stringed instrument: Zithers

    …exist, such as the bamboo-tube valiha of Madagascar and the sasandu of Roti, Indonesia, in which wire strings replace the idiochordic ones.) All long-bodied, curved-surfaced Asian zithers of the koto type may owe something to this idiochordic principle. In East Asian tradition the most ancient zither is the seven-stringed qin,…

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