It is a Mongolian instrument strings. The name of the former Mongolian morin khuur in Mongolian is: morin-u tolo tai that have heart and Cyrillic Khalkh, Морины толгойтой хуур, which means "violates horse head." It produces a sound which is poetically described as warm and unconstrained like the mongolian wild neighing, or like a breeze in the grasslands. It is the most important musical instrument of the Mongolian people, and is considered a symbol of the Mongolian nation. It is one of the masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity identified by UNESCO. A legend about the origin of the morin khuur is a shepherd named Kuku Namjil received the gift of a winged magic pony he rode at night to steal and join his beloved. A jealous woman had cut the wings of the horse, so it fell from the sky and died. The shepherd, in his grief, used the bones of his dead horse to make a violin decorated with the head of a horse, which he used to play poignant songs about the life of his horse. Another legend credits the invention of the morin khuur a boy named Sukhe (or Suho). After a wicked lord slew the white horse affectionate child, the spirit of the horse appeared in a dream to Sukhe asking him to make an instrument of his body, so they can both still be together. So the first morin khuur was assembled with a bone handle horse hair ropes, and a horse skin covering its wooden soundboard, and a horse's head carved at the end of the handle.