Chuurqin
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Chuurqin or Chuur fiddle, Chuur huur is a stringed musical instrument, and is an ancient type of Morin huur. Xinagan Chuur (西那干朝尔, 西纳干潮尔) is a variant of chuurqin which looks like an igil
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Igil
An igil is a two-stringed Tuvan musical instrument, played by bowing the strings. The neck and lute-shaped sound box are usually made of a solid piece of pine or larch. The top of the sound box may be covered with skin or a thin wooden plate...
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Chuur method of morin khuur playing
There exists a method of playing the morin huur to make it sound like a Chuur huur.External links
- Playing Chuurqin (solo 5:58~15:37) (accompaniment 15:37~18:49)
- A typical Chuurqin
- Chuur huur folk song (seems a variant, but not the Xinagan Chuur variant)
- The relation between Morin huur and Chuurqin
- Mu. Burenchugula's Harchin epic «Manggusuyin Wulige'er» (evil's story) play with a Morin huur's Chuur method playing