Karakalpakstan, a northwestern region of Uzbekistan, is known for its rich intangible cultural heritage, particularly the art of crafting the Kobyz musical instrument and the associated Zhyrau ...

Made out of dark wood, this Kazakh string instrument rests upon a silver-plated base and is decorated with silver-work as well as ivory inlays and stretched leather. The kobyz is a double-stringed ...

For several consecutive hours, musicians played Kazakh and international masterpieces by traditional musical instruments including dombra and kobyz. (Photo by Kalizhan Ospanov/Xinhua) Kazakh folk ...

The concert and lecture introduced the audience to local instruments such as the long-necked Kazakh lutes, the dombra and the kobyz. Ambassador Erlan A. Idrissov from Kazakhstan began the evening with ...

The most striking example of the preserved Kazakh folk instruments, Kasseinov said, is the "kobyz," one of the world's oldest instruments and considered by some to be a prototype of the European ...

There was still time for the curtains to go up, but you could sense the restless energy of the dombras, kobyz, dabyl, sybyzy, syrnai, and zhetygen -Kazakh traditional musical instruments - behind ...