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The instrument that weeps closer to the human voice than any throat ever could.
name meaningRoughly translates to a hundred colors of sound.
stringsThree played, up to forty sympathetic ones resonating beneath.
played byFingernail sides press strings against the cuticles, painfully.
once linkedLong tied to courtesan singers, then nearly shunned.
bowedHeld upright, bowed like a cello of grief.