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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.
Horse-head fiddle may refer to any of several types of bowed string instruments which often feature a carved horse's head at the peghead: Morin khuur , a Mongolian instrument Gusle , a Balkan instrument
Morin Khuur (Mongolian: "морин хуур") - the national instrument of Mongolia.It is a typical Mongolian two-stringed instrument. The body and the neck are carved from wood. The end of the neck has the form of a horse-head and the sound is similar to that of a violin or a cello. The strings are made of horsetail hair.
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 ...
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.
The second collaboration 'Lores' released in April 2022, features Bukhu as an instrument in a suite of sample libraries curated by composer Clinton Shorter. [19] The library brings together traditional strings and eclectic instruments, such as the Hurdy-Gurdy , Shakuhachi , and medieval pipes along with Bukhu's Mongolian Horse Fiddle.
In Mongolia, the horse is "omnipresent in song, in stories, and in art." [3] One legend revolves around the invention of the horsehead fiddle, a favorite Mongolian instrument. In this tale, a shepherd named Namjil the Cuckoo received the gift of a flying horse; he would mount it at night and fly to meet his beloved.
In Mongolia instruments like the morin khuur or horse-head fiddle survive today. The fiddle is widespread in the Gobi areas of central Mongolia and among Eastern Mongols, the Khuuchir and Dorvon Chikhtei Khuur being a two and four stringed spiked fiddle respectively. The resonator can be cylindrical or polygonal and made of either wood or metal.