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Sasando is a stringed musical instrument. Musical instruments is derived from the island of Rote, East Nusa Tenggara.
Sasando have similar shapes with other stringed instruments like guitar, violin and harp.
The main part of the long tubular sasando usually made of bamboo. Then in the middle, a circle from top to bottom are given lump-lump where the strings (the strings) that stretched across the tube, from top to bottom rests. Lump-lump gives a different tone to each chord passages. Then this sasando tube placed in a container made from a kind of woven palm leaves made out like a fan. This container is where sasando resonance.
From Wikipedia