anandalahari
The anandalahari is originated in bengal region. The instrument often accompanies dance, and may act as melody and rhythm.
Also recorded as gubgubi · ananda lahari
anandalahari
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- Name
- Anandalahari
- Field
- variable tension chordophones with loose string attached to the drum-head · chordophone
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The anandalahari is originated in bengal region. The instrument often accompanies dance, and may act as melody and rhythm.
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• Name — Anandalahari • Names — gubgubi, khamak • Classification — Membranophone Chordophone • Hornbostel Sachs — 22 • Hornbostel Sachs Desc — barrel shaped body, open on one side, and fixed on the bottom of a string(s) • Related — Pullavan Kudam, Bhapang, gubgubi, Khamak
Name
Name
The name anandalahari means "waves of joy". Popularly this instrument is called by onomatopoeic names like gubgubi and khamak.
Use
Use
The barrel is placed in the left armpit, the pot is taken in the left hand and the string is pulled with it, and the string is played with the right hand using a plectrum. A similar instrument named pulluvan kudam is found in South India. Another similar instrument known as the gopiyantra kendra is used by the Munda people of Bengal and Odisha. Both the gopiyantra and the anandalahari are used by religious mendicant singers of the Sadhu type and especially by singers of the heterodox Baul faith.
Classification
Classification
Curt Sachs believed that the anandalahari and related instruments are a separate class of purely Indian plucked membranophones but ethnomusicologist, Laurence Picken and others have shown that they are clean chordophones.
Description
The anandalahari has a barrel-shaped body, open on one side, and fixed on the "bottom" of a single string. The tool body is wooden, open on both sides; the membrane is fixed in the lower and upper parts with a leather hoop and cords. Some instruments have a hole in the upper diaphragm, others not; it may be completely absent in old instruments. The vein string is attached to the bottom with a piece of bamboo or other material. The other end of the string is fixed inside a copper pot.
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