yatga

plural yatgas

1. A traditional plucked bridge zither played in Mongolia.

   In Old Mongolia, the yatga was used in courts to entertain the aristocracy and was also played by the aristocracy.

   2001, Carole Pegg, Mongolian Music, Dance, & Oral Narrative: Performing Diverse Identities, →ISBN

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   Traditionally yatga performances were reserved only for monasteries and the court, and playing the instrument was considered a sacrosanct rite. This taboo changed over time as new forms of the yatga appeared, ranging from a ten-stringed yatga that anyone could play to a yatga with twenty-one strings.

   2009, Timothy Michael May, Culture and Customs of Mongolia, →ISBN, page 89

   The second and fourth manuscripts have musical notation for the ten-stringed yatga (Erdenechimeg and Shagdarsüren 1995).

   2017, Robert C. Provine, Yosihiko Tokumaru, J. Lawrence Witzleben, The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: East Asia, →ISBN