Hasapi

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.

Hasapi

A one-stringged hasapi
String instrument
Classification	Stringed instrument
Hornbostel–Sachs classification	321.321

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