Mvet

This instrument was collected in the field by Percy Horace Gordon Powell-Cotton. It is an idiochord stick-zither made from a raffia palm stem, in which the strings are cut from the bark of the same stem, having four strings, eight adjustable raffia frets, and one central gourd resonator. The central bridge is missing and only one string is not broken. The instrument is played with the gourd held against the player's chest.