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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.
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.
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 ...
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Tail hair was also used in the creation of musical instruments. The traditional Mongolian horsehead fiddle has two strings made of horse hair. The "male" string is made from 136 tail hairs from a stallion, while the "female" string is made from 105 tail hairs from a mare. The bow is also made of horse hair coated with resin.
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