A solid cane formed by two half-tubes made of wood. Morphologically [it is] orientated entirely on the bamboo cane. Carved on it [are] two nodal-like tube locks. Three iron clamps. Fourteen wire strings (one missing). Their ends [are] fastened to the wood with iron nails after passing under the outer iron clamps. Thirty wooden bridges of different heights. Below the two lowest strings, along the construction seam, [is] a slit-shaped opening. A holding loop made of vegetable material passed under several string ends. ". . . made and used by the Beosy. Made and used by men. Place: Antranokoaka, Madagascar." from Ulrich Wegner: Afrikanische Saiteninstrumente, Staatliche Museen Berlin - SPK, 1984 (Appendix Object Catalogue)