Pulse String

Good Vibrations
A type of musical instrument that only Blood Mages are capable of playing. The instrument itself is simply a bundle of long hairs, typically from some sort of animal, about 3.5-4.5 feet long. The performer then takes a small amount of blood, separates it into droplets, and runs these droplets up and down the string, vibrating them at various speeds.

The sound produced would most likely have a sound similar to that of a bass guitar, except with a traditional Indian feel to it.

Notation for one of these instruments would be a series of squares drawn representing the string rolled out into a flat surface. Then there would be a series of dots with arrows or something similar pointing them in the appropriate direction to be moved.