variants:
or kecapi
plural kacapi or kecapi
Definition of kacapi
: any of several oblong zithers of the Sunda Islands with movable bridges and six to 21 strings that are plucked by the fingers of both hands
A boat-shaped box provides the resonator for the kacapi, the plucked zither played in Sundanese areas of West Java, where it makes a popular combination with the suling.— Eric Taylor, Musical Instruments of South-East Asia, 1989 Kecapi is as close to what we might call a “folk” instrument as any in South Sulawesi, comparable in many ways to guitar in some parts of the United States.— R. Anderson Sutton, Calling Back the Spirit, 2002
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The first known use of kacapi was in 1820
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