Kobyz to order

Kobyz has the kovsheobrazny case, short, dugoobrazno a curved neck, a big flat head and consists of the semicircle hollowed, fitted puzyryom with the handle attached to it above and with release below for the statement of a support. Two strings imposed on kobyz svivatsya from a horsehair. Total length of the tool is 60-73 cm.

Play on a kobyz, squeezing it in knees (as a violoncello ), a short bow. This tool was used in the ancient time steppe dollars (shaman healers) for various ceremonies.

Kobyza do of an integral piece of a tree. It is one of the most ancient ways of production of musical instruments in the history of mankind, and he is explained not by so technical backwardness or lack of metal devices. On ancient beliefs of many people only in an integral piece the live singing soul of a tree which will sound in the tool will remain. The open case, the same as strings of a kobyz from a bunch 30-60 not twisted horsehair, give a timbre very dense, rich with overtones