Adilihan Abudoula
Lineage & School of Heritage
In 1946 he began learning to play the dombra from his father.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, Kazakh ethnicity, born in May 1940, a native of Yining City, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. In 1959 he was admitted to the Ili Prefecture Song and Dance Ensemble as a dance major. From 1960 he studied dombra making with three teachers, Mukatayi, Li Yanqi and Tuerxun, and took part in improving the craft of dombra making. While working at the Ili Prefecture Song and Dance Ensemble he not only learned dombra making but also studied instrument making and the methods of plucked-string performance with instrument makers of the Kazakh, Uyghur, Han, Xibe and other ethnic groups. Apart from dombras, the instruments he made for the Han, Xibe, Mongol, Uyghur and Tatar peoples were appreciated by ethnic communities throughout China and in countries and regions such as Kazakhstan and Turkey, and have been exhibited in China, Japan, Turkey and South Korea.
Honors & Recognition
A national representative bearer of Kazakh Dongbulayishu, a third-batch national intangible cultural heritage project.
References & Archival Sources
Representative Items of This Bearer
- Kazakh Dongbulayishu Ⅱ-132
Profile
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