Ghumot

Ghumat ( konkani, in Devanagari script घुमट, in Kannada script ಘುಮೋಟ ) gumatt, also ghumot, gumot, one is in the music of the Christian Konkani played in the western Indian state of Goa boiler drum whose body consists of a single-sided with skin clay pot.

Design and style of play

The thick-walled, unglazed clay pot of ghumat in Goa is bulged slightly wider in the center of the spherical shape and also similar in shape and size to a giant pumpkin. Compared with a large opening on a narrow neck at the top there is a small opening with a short neck at the bottom. Only the top opening is covered with a thin skin of the lizard. This membrane retains its position by means of a multi- belt wound around the rim. It can be additionally braced with some drums by knotted cords to the skin with the bottom. There are next in Karnataka a ghumat with an elongated cup-shaped body, wherein the membrane is also fixed solely by the O-ring.

When standing musicians clay drum is related to the membrane on the right side at chest height on a string around his neck, he strikes the skin with the right hand. With the fingers of his left hand he can produce at the bottom of the pan between strokes and cover with the palm of your hand, the lower opening partially to change the sound. The seated player fixes the vertically positioned instrument between his knees and strikes the skin with both hands.

In contrast to the boiler drum pair of tabla and the equally widespread double-cone type pakhawaj drums, mridangam or Maddale is no voting paste is applied on the eardrum. The pitch can be reduced by wetting the membrane or increase by heating the pot over the fire when needed.

The clay drum is a typical element in the folk music of the Christian Konkanis in urban and rural areas. Their melodies and uncomplicated bars refer to the influence of Portuguese immigrants. For other music in the Goa ghumat is not used, usually she plays with the small Goan, beaten with sticks tube drum samel together.

The ghumat used primarily to accompany dances. One of them is Dekhni, a popular woman dance in which the performers in songs tell the life story of a temple girl ( Devadasi ), whose task it is to perform as a dancer at religious festivals in the temple and at private weddings.

Goff is a happiness radiating folk dance of the rural male population of Goa, which is performed during the week-long festival Shigmo after the Indian calendar month Phalguna ( February 20-March 21 ). The colorful festival of Christians in Goa is the counterpart of the Hindu spring festival Holi. Each dancer holds in one hand a rope that hangs in the middle of the group from the ceiling. With its rotational movements the dancers wrap their cords spirally into a single beam on and off again. They are accompanied ghumat of the drums, or samel of melody instruments.

The also mentioned the occasion of Shigmo festival " lamp dance " is named after the brass chandeliers that are poised by the dancers on the head while they move forward slowly and with concentration. The instrumental accompaniment is made ghumat, samel, cymbals, and a harmonium.

When Mando music hard dance men and women after arising in the 19th century tradition too often sweetish European melodies performed by a violin orchestra and be ghumat rhythm gently.

Dissemination

The ghumat one of the membranophones because their sound vibrations mainly come from the stricken animal skin. In addition, as the South Indian Ghatam played in the folk and religious music of the Indian idiophones calculated clay pots without membrane. A instrumentenkundliche transitional stage between the two kinds of tone represents the mizhavu used only in Kerala in religious music, whose body consists of a zusammengelötetem copper sheet and a tiny membrane. A rare South Indian instrument of a vertical clay pot with five -covered by an animal skin openings, which therefore produces five different tones, is the Panchamukha vadya (Sanskrit "Five Faces instrument" ).

In addition to the ghumat of Karnataka played in the rural areas of Andhra Pradesh gummati is a clay drum of the same design and style of play. Similar percussion instruments called Gagri ( Gagra ) and patbuji -ki- kate in Rajasthan, kudamuzha in Tamil Nadu and noot in Kashmir and Sindh.

A special development of the skin -covered Tontopfs in South India called tantipanai. From the center of the membrane is a metal wire leads to the inside, and leaves the container at one side, some of which are fixed to the wire body rattle and terminates at an outwardly movable tuning wood. The piece of wood is triggered and thus passed the vibration indirectly to the membrane for reinforcement. The tantipanai creates a transition from the sound of the plucked drums ( ektara ).