[2] The neck is (660 mm) long and made of pine wood.

Often the peg-head has a carving of a horse head (very common on instruments around Mongolia).

It produces a louder tone than the doshpuluur, and is commonly used throughout Central Asia.

[3] The 3 guitar-strings run over a rather large loose bridge on the skin to a wooden string-holder, which is fixed with a rope to a pin on the bottom of the body.

Kongar-ool Borisovich Ondar was a master Soviet and Russian Tuvan throat singer who also played the chanzy.