Hasapi

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Renowned hasapi player Si Data of "Soerbakti, Karolanden," North Sumatra (1915-1920) by Tassilo Adam

Hasapi (Toba Batak: ᯂᯘᯇᯪ), also written as kacapi (Pakpak: ᯂᯘᯇᯪ), hapitan (Toba Batak: ᯂᯇᯪᯖᯉ᯲), and kulcapi (Karo: ᯂᯬᯞ᯳ᯠᯇᯫ), is a two-stringed lute played by the Batak people of the Indonesian island of Sumatra.[1] The plucked instrument was used for Zere religious rituals and is now used as part of the orchestra accompanying the traveling theater Opera Batak.

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