The tradition & historical record
1 min read · 2 sourcesThe ground zither (also French: cithare en terre) is a simple string instrument. 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). 1
The text above is adapted from the Wikipedia article “Ground zither”, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence. 1
ground zither is music instrument, according to the structured record cited below. This entry was generated automatically from that record and has not yet been reviewed by a person familiar with the tradition. 2
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