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Archive for July 2013
MADDALE

The MADDALE is a percussion instrument from Karnataka, India. It is the primary rhythmic accompaniment in aYakshagana ensemble along with Chande. Maddale used in Yakshagana looks similar to mridangam but.
THAVIL

The THAVIL or TAVIL is a barrel shaped drum from South India. It is used in temple, folk and Carnatic music, often accompanying the nadaswaram. Thethavil and the nadaswaram are.
OCTOBAN

OCTOBANS, also known as tube toms, are deep, small diameter, single-head tom-toms. Octobans were originally grouped in melodically-tuned sets of eight, hence the name, in reference to octave and from octo meaning "eight".
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NAGARA

The NAGARA is a folk drum with double head that is played on one side with the bare hands. It is used in Azerbaijan, Turkey, Armenia, Georgia and other Caucasus regions. It has different.
BASS DRUM

A BASS DRUM is a large drum that produces a note of low definite or indefinite pitch.
Bass drums are percussion instruments and vary in size and are used in several musical genres. Three major types of bass drums.
MOHAN VEENA

The MOHAN VEENA is a stringed musical instrument used in Indian classical music. It derives its name from its inventor, the Grammy Award winning Pandit Vishwa Mohan Bhatt who resides in Jaipur India.
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VEENA

The VEENA is an Indian plucked stringed instrument used mainly in Indian classical music. It derives its distinctive timbre and resonance from sympathetic strings, bridge design, a long hollow neck.
KANJIRA

The KANJIRA a South Indian frame drum, is an instrument of the tambourine family. It is used primarily in concerts of Carnatic music (South Indian classical music) as a supporting instrument for the mridangam..
GOBLET DRUM

The GOBLET DRUM (also chalice drum, darbuka, debuka, Kratom, doumbek, dumbec, or tablah) , is a single head membranophone with a goblet shaped body used mostly in the Middle.
HELICON

The HELICON is a brass musical instrument in the tuba family. Most are B♭ basses, but they also commonly exist in E♭, F, and tenor sizes, as well as other types to a lesser extent.
The sousaphone is a.
HARP

The HARP is a multi-string instrument which has the plane of its strings positioned perpendicularly to the soundboard. Organologically, it is in the general category of chordophones (stringed instruments) and has its.
XYLOPHONE

The XYLOPHONE is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden (not steel) bars struck by mallets. Each bar is anidiophone tuned to a pitch of a musical scale, whether pentatonic or heptatonic in.
SAXOPHONE
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The SAXOPHONE is a conical-bore woodwind musical instrument. Saxophones are usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. The saxophone.
EKTARA

EKTARA is a one-string instrument most often used in traditional music from Bangladesh, India, Egypt, and Pakistan.
In origin the ektara was a regular string instrument of wandering bards and.
TANPURA

The TANPURA is a long-necked plucked lute (a stringed instrument found in different forms in Indian music culture. Hindustani musicians speak of 'tanpura' whereas Carnatic musicians say 'tambura'; 'tamburi' is a smaller instrument.
KEYBOARD

A KEYBOARD is a musical instrument played using a keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Some other types of keyboard instruments include celestas, which are struck idiophones operated by a keyboard, carillons,.
MOUTH ORGAN

A MOUTH ORGAN is a generic term for free reed aerophone with one or more air chambers fitted with a free reed. Though it spans many traditions, it is played universally the same way by the musician placing their lips.
CAJON
A CAJON is a box-shaped percussion instrument originally from Peru, played by slapping the front face (generally thin plywood) with the hand.
ELECTRIC GUITAR

An ELECTRIC GUITAR is a guitar that
uses a pickup to convert the vibration of its strings into electrical
impulses. The most common guitar pickup uses the principle of direct electromagnetic
induction. The signal.
DILRUBA

DILRUBA is a cross between the sitar and sarangi. It is extremely close to the esraj and the mayuri vina. It so close that most people are unable to tell them apart. The difference is to be found.