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The
morin huur is the most important instrument of the Mongolian people. It
is a bowed string instrument with a trapezoid body supported between the
performer's legs. The two strings are made of horsehair. The instrument
aquired its name, which literally means "horse's lute" in Mongolian, on
account of the presence at the top of the neck of an ornamental carving
in the form of a horse's head. The morin huur is known in Chinese as matouqin,
""horse head
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