Bamboo is often a popular material for idiochords: a tube of bamboo may be slit to loosen portions of the husk at the middle, leaving them attached at the ends, and these "strings" may be raised up by inserting sticks to serve as bridges.
[2] Such bamboo idiochords include the valiha of Madagascar, the kulibit in the Philippines and Indonesia, and the karaniing of the Mon-Khmer "Orang Asli" tribal peoples of Malaysia.
A massive one-string bamboo idiochord, the benta, is native to Jamaica and played with a slide,[3] much like a diddly-bow.
[7] The Warao people of Venezuela and Guyana create a monochord idiochord by raising up a fiber from an eta[clarification needed] leaf.
[8] Various idiochords are found in mainland Africa, including the akadingidi of Uganda,[9] and the one-string mpeli of the Mpyeme[clarification needed] people of Congo and the Central African Republic.