{"id":27529,"date":"2026-07-06T07:00:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T05:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=27529"},"modified":"2026-07-06T07:00:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T05:00:36","slug":"the-dombra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/?p=27529","title":{"rendered":"The dombra"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wikipedia<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The\u00a0dombra<\/b>, also known as the\u00a0dombyra<\/b>\u00a0(Kazakh<\/a>: \u0434\u043e\u043c\u0431\u044b\u0440\u0430,\u00a0dombyra<\/i>;\u00a0Persian<\/a>: \u062f\u0645\u0628\u0648\u0631\u0647,\u00a0damb\u016bra<\/i>), is a long-necked, plucked\u00a0lute<\/a>\u00a0used in the traditional music of the\u00a0Kazakhs<\/a>,\u00a0Hazaras<\/a>,\u00a0Uzbeks<\/a>,\u00a0Tajiks<\/a>,\u00a0Nogais<\/a>,\u00a0Bashkirs<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Tatars<\/a>, and the principal national instrument of\u00a0Kazakhstan<\/a>.[<\/span>1]<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/sup>[<\/span>2]<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/sup>\u00a0Together with the bowed fiddle\u00a0qyl-qobyz<\/a>, it is one of the two most widely recognised symbols of Kazakh musical culture.[<\/span>3]<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/sup><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Until reading this I could not have named a single symbol of Kazakh musical culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wikipedia: The\u00a0dombra, also known as the\u00a0dombyra\u00a0(Kazakh: \u0434\u043e\u043c\u0431\u044b\u0440\u0430,\u00a0dombyra;\u00a0Persian: \u062f\u0645\u0628\u0648\u0631\u0647,\u00a0damb\u016bra), is a long-necked, plucked\u00a0lute\u00a0used in the traditional music of the\u00a0Kazakhs,\u00a0Hazaras,\u00a0Uzbeks,\u00a0Tajiks,\u00a0Nogais,\u00a0Bashkirs\u00a0and\u00a0Tatars, and the principal national instrument of\u00a0Kazakhstan.[1][2]\u00a0Together with the bowed fiddle\u00a0qyl-qobyz, it is one of the two most widely recognised symbols of Kazakh … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27529"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27531,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27529\/revisions\/27531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}