The ground zither (also ) is a simple
string instrument
In musical instrument classification, string instruments, or chordophones, are musical instruments that produce sound from vibrating strings when a performer strums, plucks, strikes or sounds the strings in varying manners.
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. In one Vietnamese variant one may use a long bamboo stick resting its ends on the ends of two forked tree branches stuck in the ground. In the middle of that bamboo stick, a rope this tied to a thin board covering the hole in the ground.
In an African variant, ''guio môkoun'' instead of the horizontal bamboo stick a horizontal rope is stretched, and the vertical rope is tied not to the middle, but making a longer and shorter horizontal pieces. The instrument is played by hitting horizontal pieces with the stick. The longer piece gives low tone, while the short piece gives high tone. ''Guio môkoun'' also known as ''guio yebe'' is in fact translated as "ground drum" (guio = ground, môkoun (or yebe) = drum).
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Ground bow
The ground-bow, also known as an earth-bow or ground harp, is a single-string bow-shaped folk musical instrument, classified as a chordophone. It is known in cultures of equatorial
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Zithers
Vietnamese musical instruments
Early musical instruments
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