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The earliest mention of the jal tarang is found in Vatsyayana's Kamasutra, as playing on musical glasses filled with water. [1] Jal tarang was also mentioned in the medieval Sangeet Parijaat text, which categorized the instrument under Ghan-Vadya (idiophonic instruments in which sound is produced by striking a surface, also called concussion idiophones.)
The Urdu Dictionary Board (Urdu: اردو لغت بورڈ, romanized: Urdu Lughat Board) is an academic and literary institution of Pakistan, administered by National History and Literary Heritage Division of the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting. Its objective is to edit and publish a comprehensive dictionary of the Urdu language.
The typical shape of a ghara. Ghara is an earthen pot made in the Indian subcontinent.It is used for storing drinking water and keeping it cool. [1] [2]The word ghara has cognates in Pahari, Bengali [3] and Odia languages that can all be traced to the Sanskrit word ghaṭa meaning pot. [4]
song is "Huron Carol"; "Une Jeune Pucelle" A young musician plays the hydraulophone by pressing on jets of water laid out to a musical scale.Waterflute (reedless) hydraulophone with 45 finger-embouchure holes, allowing an intricate but polyphonic embouchure-like control by inserting one finger into each of several of the instrument's 45 mouths at once
Musician Thomas Bloch playing the waterphone, 19 September 2009 at the Mittersheim pond, France. A waterphone (also ocean harp) is a type of inharmonic acoustic tuned idiophone consisting of a stainless steel resonator bowl or pan with a cylindrical neck and bronze rods of different lengths and diameters around the rim of the bowl.
Handpan is a term for a group of musical instruments that are classified as a subset of the steelpan. Several handpan makers and brands have emerged in recent years, resulting from a growing worldwide interest in the Hang , which is an instrument developed by the company PANArt that is based on the physical properties of the Trinidadian ...
The siku is an Andean pan flute This pan flute from the Solomon Islands is made from bamboo bound with reeds and rope. A pan flute (also known as panpipes or syrinx) is a musical instrument based on the principle of the closed tube, consisting of multiple pipes of gradually increasing length (and occasionally girth). [1]
Water drumming, the tambor de agua (Spanish: drum of water), bungo, or liquindi, of African origin, is water, such as a river, which is played by striking the surface directly with one's hands. It is performed by the Baka in Africa, and in South America by the descendants of formerly enslaved people , with strokes comparable to the culoepuya .