More than 1,400 year-old Altai Harp resounds in Ulaanbaatar

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jp_montastudio@montsame.mn
2016-07-05 14:03:40

 “Asar Urgoo (Tent Palace) of Legendary Nomads” has opened at the yard of the Choijin Lama Monastery-Museum of Ulaanbaatar. The Altai – Mongolian ballad group is performing the masterpieces of the Altai folklore with Altai Harp, an extraordinary historic finding dating back to Turkic period, which existed more than 1,400 years ago in the Mongolian steppe.

The musical instrument was discovered by the Mongolian archaeologists in 2008 in the remains of an ancient tomb in Mankhan soum of Khovd Province, located in western Mongolia. After the excavation, the team handed over the tomb’s findings to a German team for further studies. 

After years of studying the origin of this musical instrument, the head of Mongolian Ethnic Music Bureau Mr D.Ganpurev along with music instrument maker P.Baigalijav have recreated a copy, keeping the original shape and feature of the ancient instrument. Both the original and the copy were displayed at the “Heritages of Steppe Warriors” exhibition at the National History Museum in 2014.

Since then, the Altai Harp has been acknowledged as an exclusive cultural heritage of Mongolia and the official token of Mongolia-Germany cultural relationship.

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