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The Ukrainian kobza was a traditionally gut-strung, lute-like stringed musical instrument with a body hewn from a single block of wood. Instruments with a staved assembly also exist. [3] The kobza has a medium-length neck which may or may not have tied-on frets, which were usually made of gut.
A bandura (Ukrainian: бандура [bɐnˈdurɐ] ⓘ) is a Ukrainian plucked-string folk-instrument.It combines elements of the zither and lute and, up until the 1940s, was also often called a kobza.
Kobzarstvo (Ukrainian: Кобзарство) in the wider definition, is the art and related culture of singing to the accompaniment of the Ukrainian plucked string instruments bandura and kobza, as well as the Ukrainian hurdy-gurdy, which is called lira.
On the 1997 coin minted by National Bank of Ukraine, Cossack Mamay is dressed in a rich coat with fur and sits with his legs crossed, smoking a pipe and playing a kobza.. Traditional elements of Cossack military life are around Mamay: a horse with rich harness, tied to a spear with a flag planted into the ground; a green oak tree with a sabre hanging from it; a pistol and a stone powder case ...
Kobzar literally means 'kobza player', a Ukrainian stringed instrument of the lute family, and more broadly — a performer of the musical material associated with the kobzar tradition. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Kobzari also played the bandura , an instrument which was likely developed from the kobza .
Kobzar Ostap Veresai – One of the finest exponents of Dumy in the 19th century. A Duma (Ukrainian: дума, plural dumy) is a oral epic poem which originated in Ukraine during the Hetmanate Era in the sixteenth century, possibly based on earlier Kyivan epic forms.
The 1990s saw an explosion in the Ukrainian Pop music world. This was brought on by the Chervona Ruta Festival which was held in Chernivtsi in 1989 and sponsored by the Kobza corporation and Pisennyi Vernisazh, and New Ukrainian Wave 92 (Kyiv) sponsored and produced by the Rostyslav - Show Agency.
Prystrunky (Ukrainian: приструнки, sg. приструнок) is a term used for the additional unfretted strings strung across the body of Ukrainian folk instruments such as the kobza, bandura, and torban. Prystrunky means "near the strings".