Kobza Pavlo Konoplenka-Zaporozhets

"'Kobza of Pavlo Konoplenka-Zaporozhets'" is a type of fretted kobza torban tuning with 12 strings (8 on the neck and 4 pistrunok ), described in the book Pavlo Konoplenko-Zaporozhets "Kobza and Bandura", which he received as a gift from Danylo Bogdanovich Potapenko, a descendant of the Zaporozhians, in 1902 and learned to play it. According to the previous owner, she was then 150 years old. The instrument was hammered, not glued, like a bagpipe.
The kobza, which I received as a gift, had a primitive finish. Dovban made of willow, oval-shaped, with a long handle (neck), with a mechanism for 12 strings and had only 6 frets. So, 8 strings went along the neck, and 4 strings along the neck. There were no marks on the neck, as in guitars, between the frets. It was damaged (cracked) in several places, but well glued, and the main thing is that, despite its "museum" condition, it looked good, sounded gentle and had a beautiful vibration. The finish of the handle was highly artistic. The head of the handle (vulture) was decorated with a carving of an eagle with its bust, and diamonds (diamonds) were inserted into the eyes of the eagle, which sparkled in the light and this evoked the imagination of something distant, mystical and magical past...
The following concert samples of instruments, inheriting the ancient form and construction, were edited by the author for academic performance. In particular, if the old, gifted instrument had 6 frets, the new instrument had as many as 20. It is likely that the performer's attachment to the fret game was due to his perfect mastery of guitar techniques and touches.
Mr. Pavlo had at least three instruments: a ten-string electro-acoustic kobza made by master Frank Gay (Edmonton, Canada), a twelve-string hammered kobza made by master P. (or M.?) Boyarsky (Bridgeport, USA) and a fourteen-string acoustic kobza{ {cite web
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== Striy ==
Kobza Konoplenka-Zaporozhets had 8 strings on the neck and 2, later 4 or 6 short strings. Its string had a lot in common with the seven strings of the bagpipe.
According to information from Mr. Viktor Mishalov, the variants of the riot formation of the instrument were as follows:
* B1, D2, G2, B2, D3, G3, B3, D4 —main;
* Bb1, D2, G2, Bb2, D3, G3, Bb3, D4;
* C2, D2, G2, C3, D3, G3, B3, D4.
The last variant, except for the thickest eighth string, duplicates the torban riots a tone higher and the "folk" tuning of the seven-string guitar, common in the XIX —the first half of the XX century. in Russia and Ukraine. And in the first and third versions, the tune of Mamaeva's kobza is "hidden".
In his book "Kobzar Pavlo Konoplenko-Zaporozhets on the 60th anniversary of the triumph of the Kobza" (Winnipeg, 1970, p. 313), the author gives only the basic version of the formation for riots&nbs
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