choghur
Sign in to saveAlso known as chaghyr, chagur, chugur, chonguri, chungur, chunguri
The choghur (; ) is a plucked string musical instrument common in Azerbaijan and Georgia. It has 4 nylon strings.
Key facts
- Instrument.name
- Chungur
- Instrument.names
- Chugur
- Instrument.image
- Chungur.png
- Instrument.image_capt
- Choghur in National Museum of History of Azerbaijan
- Instrument.background
- string
- Instrument.classification
- Plucked
- Instrument.related
- Panduri Pondar Domra Mandolin Tamburica
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Image
- Çoğur.jpg
- Said to be same as
- chonguri
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- Hornbostel-Sachs classification
- 321.321
- Commons category
- Chonguri
- indigenous to
- Caucasus Mountains
- different from
- chonguri
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Encyclopedic overview
3 sectionsContents
- Georgian Chonguri
- Chungur
- References
The choghur (; ) is a plucked string musical instrument common in Azerbaijan and Georgia. It has 4 nylon strings.
The choghur dates back to the 12th to 16th centuries, the period between the gopuz and the Bağlama.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “choghur” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.