Found. Almaty, a city at the foot of the Zailiysky Alatau mountain range, is home to a museum devoted to the musical instruments of the Kazakh people. There, in a Russian-style wooden structure once known as the “officer’s house”, may be found a man singing and playing the dombyr, a type of two-stringed lute. Afterward, he will offer to sell you an unlabelled cassette, undoubtedly self-recorded, that includes a slip of typewritten notes and signed, “Abylai”.