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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
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
Siberia ( ; rus, Сибирь, r=Sibir', p=sʲɪˈbʲirʲ, a=Ru-Сибирь.ogg) is an extensive region, geographical region, constituting all of North Asia, from the Ural Mountains in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east. It has been a ...
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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 theMansi people
The Mansi ( Mansi: Мāньси / Мāньси мāхум, ''Māńsi / Māńsi māhum'', ) are a Ugric indigenous people living in Khanty–Mansia, an autonomous okrug within Tyumen Oblast in Russia. In Khanty–Mansia, the Khanty and Man ...
(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 whole of the body except the forked end. A bridge is fitted, towards the pointed end of the body. A soundpost is fitted inside the instrument, between the back of the body and the soundboard, to provide support at the position of the bridge. There are typically five strings of tendon or gut. Wood or bone tuning levers are used to tension the strings by pulling them around the crossbar. The strings are tuned diatonically, to a major or minor pentachord. These lyres are also distinguished by the placing of pebbles within the resonating body, causing a rattle. Modern examples may have metal strings, an increased number of strings, tuning pegs or pins, and a body which lacks the forked end. The nares-jux is played with a blocking technique: the player strums the strings with the right hand and uses the fingers of the left hand to damp those strings which are not intended to sound.See also
*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 instr ...
, an arched-angular lap-harp of the Khanty and Mansi
*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 ...
, a similarly-shaped long five-string zither of the Ainu people of northern Japan
References
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