setolotolos

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Scope note
Mouth bows of the southern Sotho of southern Africa, consisting of a thick straight stick with slender flexible ends notched at their extremities to hold a wire string; a loop of gut pulls the wire string towards the center portion of the bow, dividing it into two unequal sections yielding fundamentals a fourth apart. The string is plucked and stopped by hand.
setolotolos
Accepted term: 29-Apr-2024