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Ikh khuur - (Mongolian: "их хуур") A two or three (sometimes 4) stringed bass with horse head and trapezoid sound box, a hybrid of a Morin Khuur & a Double Bass. Khuuchir - (Mongolian: "хуучир") two- or four-stringed instrument with a small sound box.
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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.
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The tsuur (цуур, Mongolian), choor (Kyrgyz), or chuur (шоор, Tuvan) is an end-blown flute of varying lengths that is common among Inner Asian pastoralists. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is similar to the sybyzgy (Kazakh) and kurai (Bashkir).
Erhu, chinese version of the Khuuchir Sihu (Four string). The khuuchir is a bowed musical instrument of Mongolia. [1]The mongolian Khuuchir (also Huuchir) is considered the predecessor of chinese instruments like the more popular of the hu'kin or Huqin instruments, the "erhu", —er meaning two in chinese, referring to the two strings of the instrument, and Hu meaning foreign, or barbarian.
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The instrument's name comes from the words sì (四, meaning "four" in Chinese, referring to the instrument's number of strings) and hú (胡, short for huqin, the family of instruments of which the sihu is a member).