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This article is an overview on the various, mostly traditional musical instruments of ancient and current Mongolia. It doesn't cover western instruments like the trumpet or the piano, which are also taught in Mongolia, but their origin is clearly from outside Mongolia. ==History== After the 6th century BC it is known that people of Mongolian ethnicity played stringed instruments. The most ancient instrument is probably the tsuur, which is shown in cave wall paintings dated to the 4th or 3rd millennium BC. Other instruments were adopted or modified from instruments in use from neighbouring countries, or from conquered countries (for example the Hun/Xioungnu empire 200 BC - 600 and the Mongolian empire between the 12th and 18th century founded by Genhgis Khaan). Before the democratic revolution in 1911 several instruments had been restricted to noblemen or for use in monastery ceremonies. The yatga especially wasn't allowed to commoners if the number of strings exceeded eight; only at court could the eleven or twelve stringed yatga be played. In contrast most of the Mongolic ethnicities adopted four instruments for folk music and other oral performances: the morin khuur, huuchir, tovshuur and the tsuur. Nowadays some ethnicities changed from the tovshuur to the shanz. In modern times some instruments have been adapted like the 21-stringed yatga (about 10 strings added), the morin khuur (modification of the sound box and string material) - or invented in the 1960s for completing orchestras like the "ih huur", a horse headed double bass, also having a trapezoid sound box. There are various contexts where Mongolian instruments are in use, and nowadays there are no restrictions about who may play what. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「List of Mongolian musical instruments」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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