Raft zither

Raft zither. The body of the instrument consists of a raft of thirty-four bamboo sticks tied together with plaited vegetable fibre. Eighteen sticks, arranged in six groups of three, have idiochord strings split from the bark of the bamboo (one string is broken). The centre of each string is bound with bamboo bark, as are the ends of the stick from which it is cut. The strings pass over two bridges consisting of wooden sticks.