Kumuz
The kumuz or agach-kumuz is a stringed instrument used by the Kumyks of Dagestan, in the Russian Caucasus. It has three strings and is fretted. Scholars have noticed the similarity in name to the Kyrgyz komuz, but note the kumuz is perhaps more closely related to the other lutes of the Caucasus.
Kumuz
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- Kumuz
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The kumuz or agach-kumuz is a stringed instrument used by the Kumyks of Dagestan, in the Russian Caucasus. It has three strings and is fretted. Scholars have noticed the similarity in name to the Kyrgyz komuz, but note the kumuz is perhaps more closely related to the other lutes of the Caucasus.
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Legendarily, the Kumyk poet Irchi Kozak cured the sick with the music of his agach-kumuz.
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• Name — Kumuz • Names — Agach-kumuz • Background — string • Classification — Plucked • Related — * Komuz • Kobza • Cobza • Phondar • Panduri • Pandura • Pandur • Fandyr
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These works are cited by the source article, in its own numbering. They are recorded as its citations, not as sources VALÉORINE has verified.
- 1.Mark Slobin. Kirgiz Instrumental Music. Theodore Front Music. 11–. 978-0-614-16459-6.
- 2.https://stringedinstrumentdatabase.aornis.com/datumbazo/a.htm Stringed Instrument Database: A
- 3.https://atlasofpluckedinstruments.com/middle_east.htm#dagestan Atlas of Plucked Instruments: Dagestan
- 4.Soi︠u︡z pisateleĭ SSSR. Soviet literature. Foreign Languages Publishing House. 60. 1973.
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