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The strings are secured to the neck with red-twisted cotton cords , which end with a gold colored metallic tassel. The sides of the instrument depict scenes from the Ramayana in gold towards a black subject. Often used to accompany songs, devices like this one had their orgins in historical India and symbolize one of many oldest surviving harp traditions. Endowed with cosmological and metaphysical significance and empowered to speak the deepest feelings, this zither , beloved of sages and of Confucius, is essentially the most prestigious instrument in China. Han Dynasty (206 B.C.-220 A.D.) writers state that the qin… [...]