Kyrgyz Musical instruments
Musical instruments have always been the part of the culture of the Kyrgyz people, and before you start to travel rent a car trip in the country we would like to inform you about all peculiar facts. First of all we would like to notice that musical instruments make the accompaniment of various poetical pieces of art. Due to that we would like to notice these pieces of art for you to know during tour in the country.
First, starting to travel in Kyrgyzstan you meet the idea of the famous epic Manas. As all the information in the ancient times it was passing orally from one generation to the other. The reason is that the Kyrgyz didn't have written testimonies of those times, they were just passing facts, legends and myths by generations. So, the epic started the existence in the 16-17th centuries and only in the 20th century the Soviet researches made the written variant of it. In the course of a tour on cars for rent you can listen to manaschi retelling the epic, their performance could take days and even weeks. While making a representation of the epic the process is accompanied by national instruments. The epic is of 500,000 lines of text.
Then while being in the country and travelling here you can notice akyns making an improvisation of any kind. For you to know in the course of a tour, we would like to enumerate national instruments - komuz, temir-komuz, kyl-kyak, core, sorny, choor and zhetigen.