Twelve strips of string detached from the epidermis between the two pierced bamboo nodes. No bridge [is] preserved. Two strings [are] torn. Where the strings have grown together with the epidermis, the cane is wrapped four or five times with twisted bast cord. The two ends of the cord [are] tied together with all the wrapping strands enclosed. [A raffia loop is attached to one end of the knot. from Ulrich Wegner: Afrikanische Saiteninstrumente, Staatliche Museen Berlin - SPK, 1984 (Appendix Object Catalogue)