Horse-Headed Fiddle
1 min readThe Horse-headed fiddle is a bowed stringed-instrument with a scroll carved like a horses head.It is popular in Mongolian music.With a history of over 1300 years，it even influenced European string music when Marco Polo brought one back from his travels through Asia.Its wide tonal range and deep，hazy tone color express the ioy or pathos of a melody to its ful-lest.
The Mongolian people bestowed upon their beloved horse-headed fid-dle a fantastic legend:during horse-racing af the Nadam Fair-their fea-tured grand festival-a hero，Su He，and his white horse ran the fastest，which incurred the envy and wrath of the duke.The cruel duke shot the horse dead，and Su He grieved so much that he met his horse in a dream.
In the dream，the horse told Su He to make a fiddle from wood and the hair of a horses talil，and to carve the head of the fiddle in the shape of a horses head.The lad followed the horses advice and when he finished，the fiddle produced an extremely vivid sound.From then on，people loved this instrument and composed many songs for it.
