A rather unusual way of describing a Chechen musical instrument, but perfectly logical when you consider that the bellows of this instrument are made out of a type of cardboard/plastic composite; a Chechen accordion. "Kekhat" means "paper", and "pondur" or "pondar" means "musical instrument". The Chechen accordion has a bright and loud tone quality and is well-suited to playing rapid, staccato passages.
The "Lovzar" ChechenDance Ensemble had some very good kekhat-pondur players.
Prone to outrageous exaggeration; telling tales of dubious or hard-to-confirm origin; to promote the image of one's self by weaving fantastic stories of heroism, for example
"Mike was at the barlast night and started in with those Ponduki stories about him and the Vietnam War."
A Chechen musical instrument, this is a type of lute with usually three strings, a spade- or bottle-shaped hollow body, and a short fretted fingerboard. The sound quality is bright but at the same time soft in volume. "Dechik" means "wood" and "pondur" or "pondar" means "musical instrument".
I like the sound of a dechik-pondur better than the Chechen balalaika.