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Chikara: Traditional Bowed Instrument by Maricson Bas is a document available to read on EtoBox.
The document provides information on four traditional Indian string instruments: The chikara is a bowed string instrument from Bengal used to play folk music by tribal groups in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, and Uttar Pradesh. The banam refers to various folk fiddles played by the Santal people of Northeast India and Bangladesh, which are classified more by ornamentation than structure and vary individually by maker. The esraj is a 300-year-old Punjabi string instrument played with a bow in Sikh music an
- Author
- Maricson Bas
- Language
- EN