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The morin khuur (Mongolian: морин хуур, romanized: morin khuur), also known as the horsehead fiddle, is a traditional Mongolian bowed stringed instrument.It is one of the most important musical instruments of the Mongol people, and is considered a symbol of the nation of Mongolia.
The most often recited magtaal is "Huhuu Namjil", the legend of the creation of the morin khuur, and the Jangar - an epic that endures for three days. The Mongolian minority in Xinyang (China) celebrate it every year in August. Ерөөл-Wishspelling; Mostly recited without instruments, or rarely with the morin huur. Contemporary orchestral music
Other instruments used in Mongolian traditional music include the shudraga or shanz (a three-stringed, long-necked, strummed lute similar to the Chinese sanxian or Japanese shamisen), khuuchir (a bowed spike-fiddle), yatga (a plucked zither related to the Kazakh Jetigen), everburee (a folk oboe), khel khuur , tobshuur (a plucked lute similar to ...
Xylophone-like instrument with wooden square tubes resonators, struck with mallets, with a two level keyboard so it can play the full chromatic scale: 111.222-4 Mongolia: morin khuur [99] [100] horse-head fiddle, igil: Two-stringed instrument, held between the legs, with a trapezoidal body and a horse's head typically carved on the upper edge ...
Like the morin khuur of Mongolia, the igil typically features a carved horse's head at the top of the neck above the tuning pegs, and both instruments are known as the horsehead fiddle. The igil is held nearly upright when played, with the sound box of the instrument in the performer's lap, or braced against the top of the performer's boot.
Buryatia is a part of the Russian Federation.One of the country's main instruments is a two-stringed horse-head fiddle called a morin khuur.This is an instrument closely linked to the all-important cult of the horse, belonging to the intangible heritage of all Mongolic peoples. [1]
Limbe and two horse-head fiddles morin khuur. Concert with three horse-head violins, a flute and a singer at the Mongolian State Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet, 2011. Mongolians feel like they belong to one people across the national borders of Mongolia, Siberia, China and Central Asian states.
Pages in category "Mongolian musical instruments" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. ... Morin khuur; S. Sihu (instrument) T. Tovshuur;