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Mongolian community in Arlington celebrates Independence Day with games, food and music.

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As a prelude to the opening ceremony a performer plays a morin khuur, the horse-headed violin. The body and the neck are carved from wood. The end of the neck has the form of a horse-head and the sound is similar to that of a violin or a cello. The strings are made of dried deer or mountain sheep sinews. It is played with a bow made of willow, stringed with horsetail hair and coated with larch or cedar wood resin.

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