An instrument at my aunt's house - the 古箏 (gǔ-zhēng), or Chinese zither, This one had 13-strings (well, technically 11, since two of them broke off). I jammed on it for a while... you make tuning adjustments by moving the little anchors in the middle. You make sound by plucking or striking the strings to the right of the anchors, and you can modify the timbre by touching the string to the left of the anchors. Some more common "guitar" techniques like pitch bending can be accomplished by moving the string after the initial pluck/strike. The base tuning on this one was really odd - pentatonic on the lower end (low notes are further away from you at this angle) and almost whole tone at the higher end. But I was told this hadn't been tuned in at least a decade...
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