Earlier this week we met the Uyghur dutar, a two-stringed long-necked lute that’s all the rage among Uyghur traditional musicians.
The Uyghur dutar is an impressive instrument and we’d love to play it, though in a Uyghur home it’s apparently it’s just one of many — according to Wikipedia’s page about the Uyghurs, “Russian scholar Pantusov writes that the Uyghurs manufactured their own musical instruments; they had 62 different kinds of musical instruments….” (We sure hope that’s true.)
