Zeze (instrument)
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Zeze (instrument)

The zeze, izeze, tzetze, or dzendze (plural: mazeze) is a bowed spike fiddle of the Gogo people of the Dodoma Region of central Tanzania. It has between one and 14 strings, which are made of strands of steel wire from bicycle brake cables or plant fiber and bowed with an arched bow made of wood and baobab fiber, and a resonating chamber made from a gourd or a wooden tin covered on the playing end with goatskin or reptile skin.

Similar instruments include the jejy voatavo (also called lokanga voatavo or herrauou) of Madagascar and the dzendzé ya shitsuva of the Comoros, which are all plucked fretted tube zithers. These plucked instruments are similar to the ekatantri veena and kinnari veena of India, as well as to the bro played by ethnic minority groups in Vietnam's Central Highlands. It is also distantly related to the Indian alapini veena, the Thai phin pia and phin namtao, and the Khmer kse diev, which are all unfretted stick zithers.

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