raft zither

…having one idiochordic string (raft zither). The typical box zither is a rectangular or, more often, trapezoid-shaped hollow box, with strings that are either struck with light hammers or plucked. Examples of the former are the Persian sanṭūr and its Chinese derivative, the yangqin (“foreign zither”); the cimbalom

The raft zither is constructed on the idiochordic principle, but it uses a number of canes about half an inch (1.5 cm) in diameter; each of these has one string raised out of its own surface, and all of the canes are then lashed together. The…