Dumbra: he aha ia, haku mele, mōʻaukala, hoʻohana

ʻO Dumbra kahi mea kani Tatar e like me ka balalaika Lūkini. Lawe ʻo ia i kona inoa mai ka ʻōlelo ʻAlapia, ma ka unuhi ʻana i ka ʻōlelo Lūkini ʻo ia ke ʻano o ka "hoʻeha ʻana i ka naʻau."

ʻO kēia mea kani aho i ʻohi ʻia, he chordophone ʻelua a ʻekolu paha. ʻO ke kino he poepoe pinepine, ʻano pear, akā aia nā hiʻohiʻona me ka triangular a me ka trapezoidal. ʻO ka lōʻihi o ka chordophone he 75-100 cm, ʻo ke anawaena o ka resonator ma kahi o 5 cm.

I ka wā o ka noiʻi archaeological, ua hoʻoholo ʻia ʻo ka dumbra kekahi o nā mea mele mele kahiko loa, aia ma kahi o 4000 mau makahiki. I kēia manawa, hoʻohana pinepine ʻia, nui nā kope i nalowale a hoʻohana pinepine ʻia nā laʻana i hele mai mai ʻEulopa. Eia nō naʻe, i ko mākou manawa he mea kani Tatar, me ka ʻole o ka mea paʻakikī ke noʻonoʻo i kahi male maʻamau. I kēia manawa, hoʻāla hou nā kula mele ma Tatarstan i ka hoihoi i ke aʻo ʻana i nā haumāna e hoʻokani i ka mea kani ʻo Tatar.

Ua kamaʻāina ʻo Dumbra ma ka ʻāina ʻo Tatarstan a ma Bashkortostan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan a me kekahi mau ʻāina ʻē aʻe. Loaʻa i kēlā me kēia lāhui kona ʻano chordophone me kahi inoa kūʻokoʻa: dombra, dumbyra, dutar.