Strings are tightened to the top-keys running over an extended thin plate.
Types of stringed instruments folk skin#
It is made of a short single wood with hollowed belly covered partially by a skin over which three strings run up and down over a bridge at the bottom. Sarinda, the other string instrument which is played by bow, and is familiar in East Bengal (Bangladesh) where it is used in Bhatiali songs, was described by 19th century western musicologists in their works. Earlier animal guts served the purpose of strings. Muga threads were also utilized in the past. The actual source cannot be guessed, since it involves several factors: fixation of plate or plain wood underneath the two/three strings (finger-board), the skin surface at the bottom, use of bridge, and metal-string. And these instruments spread gradually along with the spread of popular music.ĭotara (literally, a two stringed instrument, i.e., the miniature, rustic sarod) is in use in Northern part of the Indian state of West Bengal, Bangladesh, lower Assam and Tripura. It appears that the sense of tune in the rural man induced him to devise both bowing instrument and plucking stroke-instrument in analogy with sophisticated instruments he came in contact with. In spite of these drawbacks, some indigenous types of Tata Yantra - string instruments were devised in some particular areas within the last few hundred years.
Supporting music of folk-tunes was hardly familiar in the rural areas in the past talents were not also available for such acts. String instrument in East Indian folk music is considered as the principal music producing instrument.
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