Traditional Instruments
- Amygrga (horn used for hunting Maral)
- Byzaanchy (4-string spike fiddle)
- Chadagan (similar to zither)
- Chanzy (3-string plucked lute)
- Bichii chanzy (small chanzy tuned one octave higher)
- Doshpuluur (3-string plucked lute)
- Dungur (flat drum used by shamans)
- Ediski (birch wood vibrated with the mouth to imitate birds)
- Igil (2-string bowed horsehead fiddle with skin-covered soundbox)
- Khomus (jaw harp)
- Shoor (end blown flute used by shamans to attract spirits)
- Yat-kha (long zither similar to Korean gayageum)
- Xapchyk (rattle made of a dried bull's scrotum filled with the knuckle bones from sheep)
- Kengirge (large frame drum) and shyngyrash (bells that sit atop the kengirge)
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