A khomus workshop opens at a school in Sakha's Abyi district: 31 pupils meet jaw harps of different peoples

A creative workshop called "Khomus Eygete" has started at the Urasalakh secondary school in the village of Sutuguruokha, in the Abyi district of the Sakha (Yakutia) Republic. The project is run by the public group of the Museum and Centre of the Khomus of the Peoples of the World, and its representatives Aisen Dellokhov and Ivan Borisov worked with the pupils.

In the lesson, 31 pupils got to know jaw harps from different peoples, learned the basics of playing and performed a piece together at the end. A school exhibition, "Khomus of the Peoples of the World", opened alongside. The school's director is Izolda Struchkova.

The team also met residents at the Sutuguruokha village club and at the district library in the settlement of Belaya Gora, spoke about the history of the khomus and played for them. They recorded interviews with the folk vocal ensemble "Kyraha", led by Agrafena Glushak, an honored culture worker of the Sakha Republic, and with Olga Cheremkina, director of the Belogorsk primary school named after V. P. Efimov and granddaughter of Prokopy Sleptsov, who shared memories of Prokopy Egorovich.