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Malaysia · Music · Hard

Which traditional boat-shaped plucked lute from Sarawak, carved from a single block of wood and adorned with intricate Dayak scrollwork, is played by the Kenyah and Kayan peoples for healing rituals and courtship?

The sape (or sampe) is unique to Borneo's Orang Ulu communities; its soft, polyphonic melodies are traditionally passed down orally and the instrument was historically restricted to male shamans before modern revivalists opened it to all.

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