Lyre; endongo eya soga

Endongo eya soga, lyre. The sound table is of monitor lizard skin, which is stretched over the wooden body and fixed with plaited vegetable fibre. It has a circular soundhole. The eight strings are twisted around the crosspiece of the asymmetrical wooden frame, and secured there with cloth(?) bindings. They pass over the sound-table and through a slit at the base of the table. They are knotted onto lengths of gut that are tied to a wooden stick at the distal end of the body.