Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Music Badge 2010: Dombra


The dombra is a pear shaped long necked lute of the Kazakh people of Central Asia. It has a slender long neck with fourteen gut frets and two gut strings.
Dombra have become a popular instrument with non-Kazakh peoples throughout Central Asia, Russia and in dombra clubs in the United States.
The dombra is played without a plectrum and is strummed quite rapidly with the index finger, or with the index finger and thumb.

Country: Kazakhstan, Russia
Region: Asia
Type: lute



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