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Zhetygen — the Kazakh ancient seven-stringed plucked tool reminding a psaltery or a lying harp in a form. The most ancient type of a zhetygen represented the oblong box hollowed from a piece of wood. On it to the zhetygena there was no top sound board, but there were splittings from asyk. Strings stretched a hand from the outer side of the tool. Later the top part of a zhetygen has been spread with a wooden sound board. Under each string substituted from two parties of an asyka, carrying out a role of kolok. Moving them, it was possible to arrange a string. If asyk pulled together, the system raised, moved apart — went down.

Legend of the zhetygen
In an extreme antiquity in one aul there lived an old man. He had seven sons. Once in the cold winter because of jute (the mass murrain caused by the frosting of pastures or plentiful snowfall complicating a cattle pasture) people were left without food, and the grief has lodged in the house of the old man. The death of one behind another has carried away all sons. After the death of the eldest son Kaniya the heart-broken old man has hollowed a piece of the withered tree, has pulled on him a string and having put under her a support [1], has executed кюй Karagy ("Native mine"), after the death of the second son Torealym the old father pulls the second string and improvises кюй "A rope сынар" ("The injured wing"), to the third son of Zhaykelda he composes кюй Kumary ("My dear"); to the fourth, Beken, it is devoted кюй "From a soner" ("The gone-out flame"), to the fifth son Hauas composes "Bakyt a money" ("The lost happiness"), to the sixth son Zhulzar — "Tutylda kuna" ("The eclipsed sun"). After loss of the last younger son Kiyas the old man pulls the seventh string and executes кюй "Zheti баламнан айрылып Kusa boldy" ("A grief from loss of seven sons"). Eliciting from the tool sounds full griefs, the performer in melodies, various on character, shows images of the children. These improvised melodies have gained further development and have reached us in the form of tool plays-kyuev under the general name "Zhetygennyn of a Zheteua" ("Seven кюев a zhetygena"). It is one of ancient Kazakh musical instruments almost in the invariable look which has reached our days.

Modern use
Zhetygen can have different quantity of strings: from 7, 14, 21 and to 23, his weight can be 1 kilogram, length of a zhetygen can exceed and 1,5 meters. Now in folklore ensembles it is used reconstructed жетыген in which for expansion of range have increased number of strings to 23. Control of strings is made by splittings and movement of supports. Zhetygen differs in soft, melodious sounding.

Links
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%96%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%8B%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%BD