It is one of the most common instruments of the Kazakh people. The instrument accompanied songs and poems, and shepherds widely used. According to the elders, the feature of the instrument is as follows: basically the shape and structure of the sherter is similar to dombra, the fingerboard is short, the strings are made of horsehair, the size is similar to kobyz. It has no frets. The three-stringed instrument is like the dombra of East Kazakhstan, it is pulled from above with a leather membrane like kobyz. It is easy to see that the structure of the sherter is more similar to kobyz: the neck is bent, there is no cap nut, the pegs are like that of kobyz. Making the instrument: The instrument consists of three parts: the body, neck, head. The following parts are located on the case: deck, case (main), leather membrane, filly (stand for strings), hole. In the modernized types of instruments, the number of frets is 22 (they were absent in the ancient samples). There are three pegs for three strings. At the bottom of the instrument there are three buttons, to which the strings are attached. The main feature of the sherter is that the skin is stretched on half of the deck, and depending on the quality of the skin, the sound is produced differently. Mainly goat and camel skin are used for membranes. Sherter is an unsolved secret for both performers and craftsmen. The proof of this is the changeable species. Every year the appearance of the instrument changes, great importance is attached to the sound.