Altai vargan / komus small with case handmade

Description

Vargan universal multi-functional, fascinating sound of this device will appeal to lovers of meditative practices for the game. Truly the magic and charm of this vargan is revealed when unhurriedly playing in some quiet place.
It is believed that the ancestor of the vargan was a bow, which appeared in prehistoric times, in the Mesolithic era, about 9-12 thousand years ago. It was enough for a person to rest one end of the bow into the palate or teeth, and the other into the ground, and the deadly weapon turned into a musical instrument, which was played with fingers or chopsticks on the string of today in some tribes of Central America). But it is hardly worth considering the onions to be the prototype of the modern vargan, since a variety of the vargan was also found in Australia, where the natives of the onion did not know at all.
The vargan has about 800 names, in different countries among many nations, the most famous of which are the maultrommel (German-speaking countries), trompa (Central and South America), birimbao (Spain), vargan (Russia).
The peoples of the Turkic group vargannaya music also has centuries-old traditions. On the territory of the Russian Federation, the skill of playing the Vargan is mastered in Altai, Khakassia, Tuva, Bashkortostan, Yakutia, and in other regions where the Turkic population is concentrated. Among the peoples of the former USSR, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Uzbeks and Turkmen, Tajiks, Azeris, Gagauz, Tatars play on the Vargan.
There is an opinion that in the USA he retained, obviously, the very first of his historical name - according to the most ancient "God's chosen" people - Jew’s Harp (among the Jews).
It is known that the United States President Abraham Lincoln and the Russian Tsar Peter the Great owned the harps. They say that Pyotr Alekseevich also liked to play the bass (the outdated name of the vargan) in his spare time from the reign, and he did it very well. And Abraham Lincoln in general was a first-class master of this instrument and played such interesting things on the harp that the women close to art lost consciousness from happiness and found themselves in the hot embraces of the future president