topshur
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowing from Russian топшу́р (topšúr), from Southern Altai топшуур (topšuur).
Noun edit
topshur (plural topshurs)
- (music) A plucked two-string lute traditionally used by the Altai people.
- 1989, Ping Cheng, Xinjiang: The Land and the People, page 127:
- Favorite instruments of the Mongolians of Xinjiang are the matouqin, the sihu, the sanxian or three-stringed lute and the topshur.
- 2009, L. Broz, “Conversion to Religion? Negotiating Continuity and Discontinuity in Contemporary Altai.”, in Conversion after Socialism: Disruptions, Modernisms and Technologies of Faith in the Former Soviet Union:
- In these services, traditional instruments like the komus (mouth harp) and topshur (a two-stringed instrument), as well as well-established throat singing techniques, are often used.