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Bar zither

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Instruments may be monochords (single stringed) or polychord (multiple stinged). They may also be idiochords (string made from the bar or stick) or heterchords (string made of separate substance from the bar or stick.
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Indonesia, 20th century. Heterchord stick zither, using a gourd resonator. Example of a vertical board being use instead of a bar, called a lath-zither. Still considered bar zither.
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in the Malay Archipelago, Madagascar and Zanzibar, the round stick is replaced by a short lath which the player holds on edge (lath-zither).
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has a stick in place of a resonating body and always needs an additional resonator, generally a gourd, sometimes the mouth of the player.
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musical bow, using his mouth for a resonator. Heterochords have strings made of a different material than the rigid part of the bow.
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Mozambique, 21st century. Man playing a heterochord musical bow, using his mouth for a resonator.
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India, 19th century. Heterochord stick zither called a Tingadee, using gourds for resonators.
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Flanders, 16th century. European heterochord musical bow, using a bladder for a resonator.
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Lake Arereco in Chihuahua, Mexico, 21st century. Stick zither called a "chapareque",
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musical bow with gourd resonator. Tapped with stick to play. String also vibrates
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Belgium, 19th century. Heterochord stick zither using a bladder for a resonator.
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instrument. Heterochord bar zither, using mouth for resonator.
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heterochord stick zither, which uses a gourd for a resonator.
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20th century. Stick zither, gourd resonator, heterochord.
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Bangladesh, 10th - 12th century C.E. Saraswati with an
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von Hornbostel, Erich M.; Sachs, Curt (March 1961).
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Index

musical instruments
zither
Hornbostel-Sachs
simple chordophone
musical bows
Sachs
Man playing a heterochord musical bow, using his mouth for a resonator. Heterochords have strings made of a different material than the rigid part of the bow.
heterochord
Flanders, 16th century. European heterochord musical bow, using a bladder for a resonator. Bladder fiddle.
Bladder fiddle
Mozambique, 21st century. Man playing a heterochord musical bow, using his mouth for a resonator.
Brazil. Berimbau musical bow with gourd resonator. Tapped with stick to play. String also vibrates caxixi wrattle.
Berimbau
caxixi
Burundi. Umuduri musical bow.
Umuduri
India, 19th century. Heterochord stick zither called a Tingadee, using gourds for resonators.
Cambodia, 21st century. Yoeun Mek plays a Kse diev heterochord stick zither, which uses a gourd for a resonator.
Yoeun Mek
Kse diev
Borobudur, 9th century C.E. Stone relief showing girls playing stick zither and lute.
Borobudur
Belgium, 19th century. Heterochord stick zither using a bladder for a resonator.
Banjul, Gambia. Heterochord stick zither using a tin can for a resonator. Called a cora.
Banjul
Gambia
Indonesia, 20th century. Heterchord stick zither, using a gourd resonator. Example of a vertical board being use instead of a bar, called a lath-zither. Still considered bar zither.
Belgian Congo 20th century. Stick zither, gourd resonator, heterochord.
Belgian Congo
Africa. Mvet, a stick zither from Africa. Hornbostel-Sachs didn't consider a mulitiple-string bar zither (or poly-heterochord bar zither).

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