بەرباب

ئۇيغۇر چالغۇ ئاتالغۇلىرى Barbab Barbab was a stringed instrument which was invented by our ancestors in Kuqa．Barbab was widely used among Uighur people before Islam came to this area． The way of playing Barbab was reformed by the famous Barbab player Pilol who lived in Kashgar during the early times of Tang Dynasty．The way of playing it by holding with a slope was changed to holding it venically．In the beginning，aplectrum was used to play it and later fingers were used to play． Barbab was made of the Wood of phoenix tree．Its length is about seventy to eighty centimeters and it is held venically in the bosom and played by pressing the tunes with left hand and picking the stings with right hand fingers．NoW in our country the most commonly used Barbab has four strings with crooked handle．Its sound range iS between A to e3． Barbab was called Hu Pipa(Uighur Barbab)and there were two kinds ofit．During Sui and Tang dynasty，Barbad spread to Japan，Korea，Burma and Vietnam and its earliest kind is preserved in Japan． Its adjustments：strings：①②③④， tUnesi a e d A， Remarks：the order of the adjustment of strings：handle is held upwards and the number is from right to the left．eg．①②…． ئۇيغۇر چالغۇ ئاتالغۇلىرى Barbab Barbab has four to five strings with wide surface．In is held vertically and played by flicking the strings with right hand fingers and pressing the tones with left hand．There are two kinds of ．One of them has a crooked handle with four stings and the other has five strings．There are pictures Of them in all the caves of Kizil Kaga，Kumtura and Bizeklik Thousand Caves