The dutar (also dotar; Persian: دوتار, romanized: dutâr; Russian: Дутар; Tajik: Дутор; Uzbek: Дутор; Uyghur: دۇتار, Дутар, romanized: Dutar; simplified Chinese: 都塔尔; traditional Chinese: 都塔爾; pinyin: Dū tǎ ěr; Dungan: Дутар) is a traditional Iranian long-necked two-stringed lute found in …

Dutar - the commonest and most popular musical instrument of the Turkmen people. It appears that the dutar and similar plucked stringed instruments were known in ancient times.

Apr 6, 2024 · The Uyghur dutar is a crucial part of the Uyghur culture in Xinjiang, China. See how the instrument is made and what it sounds like!

Dec 13, 2021 · The dutar is an inseparable part of Turkmen culture and is used in all of the main genres of Turkmen music and singing. The music is divided into two types: dutarchy, which refers to music played alone, and bagshy, which refers to music accompanied by singing.

The dutar, a long-necked, fretted lute with a distinctive pear-shaped body, holds a profound place in the musical traditions of Central Asia, Iran, and beyond.

Feb 20, 2022 · Dutar is a traditional instrument in Turkmenistan and is a long-necked, two-stringed lute with a pear-shaped body covered by a thin wooden sounding board. The craftmanship of making Dutar, the art of its performance and singing along with it is of a long-lasting tradition, mingled with life in Turkmenistan.

Feb 2, 2024 · The dutar, which literally translates as ‘two strings’, is an integral part of the Turkmen nation’s centuries-old music. No celebration, be it a wedding or a public holiday, is complete without performances by folk musicians (bagshis).

Dutar - the commonest and most popular musical instrument of the Turkmen people. It appears that the dutar and similar plucked stringed instruments were known in ancient times. Archaeological finds in Merv such as the " wandering bakhsbi" or the Toprak-kala manuscript with the picture of a girl musician (111-IV century) with two-stringed ...

Jul 28, 2021 · The dutar, which literally translates as ‘two strings’, is an integral part of the Turkmen nation’s centuries-old music. No celebration, be it a wedding or a public holiday, is complete without performances by folk musicians (bagshis).

The dutar is a two string pear-shaped long-necked lute from western China, played by the Uighur and Uzbek people of Xinjiang Province. Although western ethnomusicologists state that these instruments came from the Persian dutar or dotar (originally a two-string instrument but now with four strings), the Uighur people say that the Persian ...