stick zithers

Zithers consisting of no more than a rigid stick and one or more strings can be played without further amplification of sound, but generally a resonator in one form or another is appended: a gourd, coconut, inflated vesicle, and so on. The stick itself can be round, as in India and Indochina, or a flat bar, as in Indonesia and Africa. On the Indian subcontinent stick zither s vary from primitive, as played by some aboriginal tribes, to the most elaborate...