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AGP #312 - “Dıngılday - Дынгылдай”

AGP #312 - “Dıngılday - Дынгылдай”
(3 String Tuvan Doshpuluur)
Scale : 616mm / 24¼inches
Strings : .030Silver Wound Nylon/.040-Nylon/.032-Nylon/
Came across this great sounding little instrument called a “Doshpuluur” while watching a documentary on the “Idiot Box” about the “Tuvan People’s Republic” which is on the Mongolian border in Russia somewhere, So!, of course I had to build one!, from what I could find out on “Mr Google”, they have a scale length of around 24¼inches,are strung with Nylon Strings & Tuned CGc, and that they are built primarily from Pine with either a Top & Bottom of Goat Skin or thin Pine.
This one is obviously all Pine, the 10mm Box Sides & Neck are Spruce Pine sourced from my trusty old recycled Piano, the Top and Bottom are 3mm Radiata Pine Ply, the Fretboard and Nut are an unknown white dumpster find timber and the Bridge is Cypress Pine, screwed the top on instead of gluing to give me the option of changing to a Hide Top, which might happen in the near future, as it’s doesn’t quite have the sound & volume I was expecting, used the B G D strings from a set of Normal Tension Classical Guitar Strings and tuned it CGc, which was very sloppy with little Volume, have been gradually tuning it higher which creates more volume as you go up, and am currently at GDg but not sure if I’m game to take it any further, maybe heavier strings might help, but! knowing virtually nothing about Nylon Strings, I am open for any suggestions or help from the wealth of information that the members of the Cigar Box Nation possess.
It’s was quite an expensive build costing around 18,074 Mongolian tögrög, which equates to abt 422 Russian Rubles, $9.58 Australian, $7.55 USD :-D

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Comment by AGP # on March 2, 2018 at 10:28am: "Thanks Pick", for your "Nice Cultured Comments" :-D

Comment by the anonymous pick on March 1, 2018 at 12:48pm: nice , cultural adoption.

Comment by AGP # on March 1, 2018 at 12:31pm: "Thanks James O', have duly noted those helpful hints on the strings & tuning etc., at the moment I'm contemplating turning this nice little build into a lightly strung CBG with Pickup, and building another Doshpuluur of the same design, but this time with a Kangaroo Rawhide Top & Bottom, probably what I should have done in the1st place! :-D

Comment by James O Lunsford on February 28, 2018 at 8:06pm: Nice Build AGP# Salvarez High tension strings should give you a good sound use the GBD strings for open G tighten to standard pitch 440 Hz used on Cordoba Classical guitars sound and play great for open D used E string drop to D and the A and D string gives you DAD open D

Comment by AGP # on February 27, 2018 at 8:53am: "Thanks wes carl" :-)

Comment by AGP # on February 26, 2018 at 12:47pm: "Thanks" again 'UJ', I believe every build has a story which should be told!, HOWEVER!!, I have been told more than once or twice before that I do "Ramble On" and "Talk Too Much" at times :-D

Comment by AGP # on February 26, 2018 at 12:43pm: "Thanks Dave", from what I could gather the original Doshpuluurs had no sound hole, but in the Pics that I could find on them, there was a black dot or hole in the area where I drilled :-)

Comment by AGP # on February 26, 2018 at 12:39pm: "Thanks UJ & Maddog", not my usual style of Headstock & Tuners but this is one of the types used by the Tuvan's, the other being a carved Horses Head, but I put that idea into the "Too Hard Basket" :-D