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{{Infobox Instrument
|name=Jetigen
|names=A Kazakh jetigen on display in the [[Kazakhstan National Museum of Instruments]].
|image=Jetigen.jpg
|image_capt=
|background=string
|classification=
*[[String instruments]]
*[[Box zither]]
|hornbostel_sachs=
|hornbostel_sachs_desc=
|developed=Antiquity
|range=
|related=
*[[yatga]]
*[[koto (musical instrument)|koto]]
*[[guzheng]]
*[[zither]]
*[[Kanun (instrument)]]
*[[Kanklės]]
*[[Jadagan]]
}}

The '''jetigen''' ({{lang-kk|жетіген}} {{IPA-kk|ʒi̯ɘtɘɣi̯ɘn|}}, or '''dzhetigan''' or '''zhetygen''') is a [[Kazakhs|Kazakh]] seven-stringed [[zither]] similar to the Mongolian [[yatga]] or Siberian [[jadagan]]. The strings were sometimes made of [[horsehair]].<ref name="Pegg2001">{{cite book|author=Carole Pegg|title=Mongolian Music, Dance, & Oral Narrative: Performing Diverse Identities|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gKRrVu0fBn8C&pg=PA89|year=2001|publisher=University of Washington Press|isbn=978-0-295-98112-3|pages=89–}}</ref>

Early instruments took the form of a rectangular box, carved from wood, with strings stretched over the top. Later, a separate sounding board was added, and moveable supports were used to raise each string from the sounding board; the position of each support along its string determined the pitch of that string's note.<ref name="Kazakhstan-TouristPage">{{cite web|url=http://www.kazakhstan-tourist.isd.kz/page.php?page_id=538&lang=2|title=Committee of Tourism Industry of the Ministry of Tourism and Sport of the Republic of Kazakhstan :: Kazakh musical instruments|publisher=kazakhstan-tourist.isd.kz|year=2009|accessdate=2015-11-29}}</ref>

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[[Category:Kazakhstani musical instruments]]
[[Category:Zithers]]

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