Komuz is a Kyrgyz folk three-stringed musical instrument (like a lute). Its body is made of one piece of wood, mostly a dried apricot. Komuz has a rich variety of sounds. According to a legend, there lived a hunter named Kambarkan who understood the "language" of many birds and animals recognizing each of them by their sounds. One day, while he was in the woods, he heard a new wonderful sound. He was so captured by this incredible sound that he started searching for its source. For a better overview the hunter climbed a tree and from there he saw two branches of a nearby tree connected with a dried bowel of a squirrel. The sound was coming from this "string". He took a piece of string together with the timber and made a musical instrument. Thus, he became the founder of the national music and still known as the "Father of melody."