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Stringed Instruments
NUZHE
Nuzhe is another stringed instrument played with plucking described by Safiaddin Urmavi, a famous Azerbaijani expert in music. With
the body part crafted of plane, boxwood and cedar, it has 81 strings. Along with coupled strings stretched along a thin wooden plate,
there are also shorter single strings of various length.
Private collection. Made on the basis of archival sketches. 2009