Sarsa

Musical instrument from the 1980 science fiction novel Name of a Shadow by Ann Maxwell (aka Elizabeth Lowell), set on the planet Malia.

Faen, the last of an ancient aristocracy. She alone knows the secret of the sarsa, the musical instrument that can summon the undying wisdom of the shadows. She alone can call its name... Name of a shadow.

(excerpt from the blurb)

It is he who tells her to save Malia by using her special ability to play the Sarsa (a musical instrument which is the repository for the memories of Malia).

--from Alien to Femininity: Speculative Fiction and Feminist Theory, by Marleen S. Barr, 1987

External Links

• https://www.elizabethlowell.com/book/name-of-a-shadow/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Maxwell