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Nares-jux
The nares-jux (нарс-юх) or Siberian lyre is a musical instrument, a type of box-lyre, played by the peoples of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug of Russian Siberia. Etymology The Ostyak (Khanty people) term the instrument ''nares-jux'', meaning "musical wood" or "singing tree" in the Khanty language. The same instrument is played by the Mansi people (formerly known as ''Vogul''), and is known as sangkultap (or ''sangvyltap'', санквылтап) in the Vogul language. Various names and spellings include: ''naresyuk'', ''nars-yukh'', ''naras-yux'', ''nars-juh'', ''nares-yuk'', possibly ''nanus'' ''narsus'', ''panan-juh'', or ''shongoort''. Construction and playing In the traditional form, the hollow body of the instrument is carved from a single piece of wood (fir or cedar) around 100 cm long. One end is pointed and the other is forked into two arms which carry a crossbar to hold the tuning mechanism. The soundboard is around 0.5 cm in thickness and covers the who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khutang
The Khutang (literally translated to "swan", also called Ostyak harp, ''Kiotang, Sotang'', ''Shotang'') is a type of harp played by the Khanty and Mansi people of Siberia. The Khutang and the Nares-jux lyre are the only two indigenous string instruments of Northern Siberia. The Khutang is bow-shaped and often surmounted by a carven animal head, which is often a swan. It is generally described as having between nine and thirteen strings. - ''of instrument unknown elsewhere in Western Siberia ; one was a five-stringed lyre with a body shaped like a fish, and the other a swan-necked harp with nine or thirteen strings.'' The Mansi also referred to the instrument as ''Taryghsyp Yiv'' (meaning "wooden crane-neck"). A similar swan-shaped and two-stringed harp is played by the Narym Selkup people The Selkup (russian: селькупы), until the 1930s called Ostyak- Samoyeds (''остяко-самоеды''), are a Samoyedic speaking Uralic ethnic group native to Siberia. They live i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tonkori
The is a plucked string instrument played by the Ainu people of Hokkaidō, northern Japan and Sakhalin. It generally has five strings, which are not stopped or fretted but simply played "open". The instrument is believed to have been developed in Sakhalin. By the 1970s the instrument was practically extinct, but is experiencing a revival along with the increased interest in Ainu heritage. Construction The instrument is typically constructed of a single piece of Jezo spruce approximately a metre long. Its shape is traditionally said to resemble a woman's body, and the corresponding words are used for its parts. A pebble is placed within the body-cavity of the instrument, granting it a "soul". The instrument tends to measure approximately 120 cm long, 10 cm wide, and 5 cm thick. The tonkori's strings are made of gut, deer tendon, or vegetable fiber. While five-string tonkori are the most frequently mentioned, they could have as few as two or as many as six strings ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naresyuk
The nares-jux (нарс-юх) or Siberian lyre is a musical instrument, a type of box- lyre, played by the peoples of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug of Russian Siberia. Etymology The Ostyak ( Khanty people) term the instrument ''nares-jux'', meaning "musical wood" or "singing tree" in the Khanty language. The same instrument is played by the Mansi people (formerly known as ''Vogul''), and is known as sangkultap (or ''sangvyltap'', санквылтап) in the Vogul language. Various names and spellings include: ''naresyuk'', ''nars-yukh'', ''naras-yux'', ''nars-juh'', ''nares-yuk'', possibly ''nanus'' ''narsus'', ''panan-juh'', or ''shongoort''. Construction and playing In the traditional form, the hollow body of the instrument is carved from a single piece of wood (fir or cedar) around 100 cm long. One end is pointed and the other is forked into two arms which carry a crossbar to hold the tuning mechanism. The soundboard is around 0.5 cm in thickness and covers th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lyre
The lyre () is a stringed musical instrument that is classified by Hornbostel–Sachs as a member of the lute-family of instruments. In organology, a lyre is considered a yoke lute, since it is a lute in which the strings are attached to a yoke that lies in the same plane as the sound table, and consists of two arms and a crossbar. The lyre has its origins in ancient history. Lyres were used in several ancient cultures surrounding the Mediterranean Sea. The earliest known examples of the lyre have been recovered at archeological sites that date to c. 2700 BCE in Mesopotamia. The oldest lyres from the Fertile Crescent are known as the eastern lyres and are distinguished from other ancient lyres by their flat base. They have been found at archaeological sites in Egypt, Syria, Anatolia, and the Levant. The round lyre or the Western lyre also originated in Syria and Anatolia, but was not as widely used and eventually died out in the east c. 1750 BCE. The round lyre, called so fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug
Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug–Yugra (Russian and Mansi: Ханты-Мансийский автономный округ — Югра, ''Khanty-Mansiysky avtonomny okrug — Yugra;'' Khanty: Хӑнты-Мансийской Aвтономной Округ) or Khantia-Mansia is a federal subject of Russia (an autonomous okrug of Tyumen Oblast). It has a population of 1,532,243 as of the 2010 Census. The peoples native to the region are the Khanty and the Mansi, known collectively as Ob-Ugric people, but today the two groups only constitute 2.1% of the region's population. The local languages, Khanty and Mansi, enjoy special status in the autonomous okrug and along with their distant relative Hungarian are part of the Ugric branch of the Finno-Ugric languages. Russian remains the only official language. In 2012, the majority (51%) of the oil produced in Russia came from Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, giving the region great economic importance in Russia and the world. It border ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
