Jetigen

Jetigen

String instrument
Other names	A Kazakh jetigen on display in the Kazakhstan National Museum of Instruments.
Classification	String instruments Box zither
Developed	Antiquity
Related instruments
yatga koto guzheng zither Kanun (instrument) Kanklės Jadagan

The jetigen (Kazakh: жетіген [ʒi̯ɘtɘɣi̯ɘn], or dzhetigan or zhetygen) is a Kazakh seven-stringed zither similar to the Mongolian yatga or Siberian jadagan. The strings were sometimes made of horsehair.^[1]

Early instruments took the form of a rectangular box, carved from wood, with strings stretched over the top. Later, a separate sounding board was added, and moveable supports were used to raise each string from the sounding board; the position of each support along its string determined the pitch of that string's note.^[2]

References

1. Carole Pegg (2001). Mongolian Music, Dance, & Oral Narrative: Performing Diverse Identities. University of Washington Press. pp. 89–. ISBN 978-0-295-98112-3.
2. "Committee of Tourism Industry of the Ministry of Tourism and Sport of the Republic of Kazakhstan :: Kazakh musical instruments". kazakhstan-tourist.isd.kz. 2009. Retrieved 2015-11-29.