A girl with a komuz
4 October 2009
Last week a girl came to my house, eleven years old, with her father. She wants to learn the komuz. In my day only the boys played, the girls sang or danced. The father said he does not mind, he hears she has talent. She does. She held the komuz like a loaf of bread, with both arms, and played the first line of the "Ak Kalpak" song, right the first time.
I said: you will come on Wednesdays after school. Bring bread for the old man. Her father said, "And for the teacher's dog also?" Yes, also for the dog.