Art of Kazakhstan

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Art of Kazakhstan

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Art
• Art is divers range of human activities and the
products of those activities, usually involving
imaginative or technical skills.
Painting
Sculpture
Primtmarking
Photography
Music, theatre, dance

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Paintings

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ABYLKHAN KASTEEV

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Musical instruments

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National wooden, ceramic and
porcelain crockery

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National clothes

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Trunks, tables

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Ancient weapon and traditional
armour of Kazakh warrior, Batyr

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Exclusive bone and horn carvings

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craftsmans

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Musical instruments
• Kobyz
• Kobyz is a bow instrument with two strings. It was
hollowed out of one whole wooden piece – juniper
(arsha), maple, pine-tree and birch. The instrument
consisted of three parts: head (bas), middle (base is
keude) and lower part (ayak). The base is made in the
form of an open bowl stretched downside. This lower
part of the instrument is covered with leather
(sounding board). The support (tiek) is established on
it. Even in our days, the strings for kobyz are made of
horse-tail.

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Zhetygen
• Zhetygen is an ancient seven-stringed plucking instrument, which
reminds of gusli or lying harp. The most ancient type of zhetygen
looked like the prolonged box hollowed out of the wooden piece.
Such zhetygen did not have the upper sounding board and pins. The
strings were stretched by hand from the outer side of the
instrument. Later the upper part of zhetygen was covered with the
wooden sounding board. Assyks were out under each string from
two sides. Moving them it was possible to tune the string. If assyks
were drawn closer to each other the tune was rising, and if drawn
apart the tune was falling. String tuning was made by the pins and
by moving the supports.

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• Sherter
• Sherter is an ancient stringed plucking instrument. Sherter is played the
same way as the dombra. But sherter is much smaller than dombra, it
had a short neck without the frets, it had different, stronger sound than
dombra. Sherter resembled kobyz because it was also hollowed out of
the whole wooden piece, it had the bent shape and the base was
covered with leather. Two strings were made of horsehair. The
instrument had just one pin; therefore both strings were put through the
head, then one of them was attached to the pin and the other string was
attached to the head itself. Tuning of strings was related to the long
shape of the instrument. The string fixed on the sherter head was
stretched by hand and the second string fixed on the pin was tuned
corresponding to the pitch of the first string. Sherter was mainly used for
accompanying songs, tales and legends. It was popular amongst the
shepherds

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Sybyzgy
• Amongst the wind
instruments sybyzgy was
the most favourite
instrument. It entered the
musical life of the people.
Sybyzgy helped the
shepherds in solitude at the
far-away grasslands. It
brought joy to people
during the evening hours of
rest when the musicians
were telling and playing
beautiful ancient legends
and stories

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Dombra
• Dombra is the most widely used
Kazakh folk instrument. Dombra
can be met in each yurta; it was
referred to as one the most
necessary and obligatory things in
the life of Kazakhs. The history of
this instrument’s origin goes into
the depth of centuries. There are
two types of dombra – western
and eastern. Different shapes of
dombra were caused by the
features of two performance
traditions. In order to perform
fast, masterly tokpe-kuis

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Dabyl
Dabyl is a percussion instrument, the
rim with a handle covered from both
sides with leather. Usually the
warriors were using dabyl (during the
attack). It was the instrument with a
very strong and loud sound, which
served for making signals. In ancient
times percussion instruments (dabyl,
dauylpaz and shyndauyl) were widely
used in the life of Kazakhs. Loud
sounds of percussion instruments
were calling the aul residents for
hunting, for conducting religious
rituals; and they were also informing
about the forthcoming migration.

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Dangyra
• Dangyra is a percussion
musical instrument. It
represented a tambourine:
the rim covered from one
side with leather, inside of
which there were small
metal chains, rings and
plates, sounding when the
leather is stricken and
during the movement there
was an additional noise
effect. Dangyra was an
attribute of shaman rituals.