Talk:Morin khuur

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Contents 1 Photos available 2 Name of Entry 3 Marco Polo reference 4 External Link Edit 5 Reply

[edit] Photos available

69.3.70.175 00:04, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC): A photo of a morin khuur played by Yo-Yo Ma and of a closeup of the head of the instrument is available for download at:

http://press.silkroadproject.org/photos.html

According to the website:

These photos are for editorial and promotional use only in newspapers, news magazines, trade publications and broadcast media. Unless otherwise indicated, all images remain the property of The Silk Road Project, Inc. You must include the photo credit whenever using these. A caption is provided for your use as well.

http://press.silkroadproject.org/grfx/photos/artists/ma2.zip (Yo-Yo Ma, morin khuur, ©2001 Cylla von Tiedemann)

http://press.silkroadproject.org/grfx/photos/instruments/morin_khuur.zip (The morin khuur [MOO rin HOOR], a Mongolian horsehead fiddle, held by Yo-Yo Ma who performs the instrument in Kayhan Kalhor's Blue as the Turquoise Night of Neyshabur. ©2001 Cylla von Tiedemann)

[edit] Name of Entry

Should this entry be renamed to "Morin khuur"? Since the instrument is of Mongolian origin, and is of more significance to Mongolian culture than to Chinese culture, it seems that the Mongolian name should be the primary designation rather than the Chinese name. -- Takwish 18:48, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

I agree with it and also wants to ask that I don't understand why it's in chinese-related articles project? Better to be a mongolian-related article, wouldn't it? --Dolugen 11:23, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Marco Polo reference

The reference about Marco Polo's getting one of these instruments needs to be sourced. Badagnani 10:48, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] External Link Edit

As the webmaster for the ParisMonSantaro Mongolian Research Center, based out of Ulaanbaatar, we would sincerely like to have permission to link our website to the Morin Khuur wikipedia article. We have a gallery of beautiful morin khuurs on our web site, as well as contact information for professional morin khuur craftsmen who live and work in Mongolia. It would benefit those whom are interested in learning about the Morin Khuur to have our link readily accessible. [http://www.mongolzuuch.mn Mongolian Studies Research Center] syferia 16:37, 28th March, 2007

Wikipedia is not a sales directory. --Latebird 09:06, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Reply

Thank you for your quick reply. We are a research center. Also, we are working to empower local Mongolian artisans by sharing information about their crafting skills, morin khuur history and art, and sharing their contact information. This is of clear and direct relevance to the Morin Khuur article on Wikipedia. Morin Khuurs are carefully hand crafted by skillfull local Mongolian luthiers, who by nature maintain their own business. Again, please reconsider your decision. Perhaps an appropriate link would be a link to our Morin khuur history page, which is especially of great value to wikipedia users. Great care and knowledge of several languages has been taken to translate information from Uighur script, Mongolian, and Chinese manuscripts about the Morin Khuur into English. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 202.131.245.202 (talk) 04:31, 30 March 2007 (UTC).