Dholak

Dholak is a group of questionable time tube drums in drum or double cone shape, which are widespread in northern India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nepal.

The dholak belong to a widespread type of Near Eastern drums (Arabic generally tabl ). In Afghanistan, this means played by Pashtuns instrument doholak. In India, there was independent of the medieval oriental culture influences in the 1st millennium BC, several different drum types. The double-cone shape occurs practically only in the Indian region. These include not only the dholak including India, the mridangam, the pakhawaj that Maddale and the pung and the Nepalese pashchima.

The body consists of an elongated bulbous wood block in one piece. The skins are stretched with a Y- cord tension or with a screw through the body and can be tuned with rings in the former case. The bass skin can be internally provided with a vocal paste to make the sound deeper.

When playing the dholak the deeper skin lies transversely in front of the player on your lap left. It is beaten with the hands and fingers. Some players use a finger ring, in order to generate a click on the wooden body. The dholak is smaller than the beaten with sticks dhol.

The dholak is in the qawwali and other popular North Indian musical styles, as well as used in Indian film music.

A slightly smaller in diameter version is the Dholki. At the higher their skin is pulled over an iron ring as a major difference, which projects laterally beyond the edge of the body. It is similar to the wooden rings the South Indian hourglass idakka. The Dholki is used among other things in the influenced by the classic Tappa singing form Lavani and Tamasha Theatre to the people, both of which are common in Maharashtra. The actresses troops of Tamasha hot Dholki - bari.

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