Pakhavaj

The pakhawaj is a double head drum of North Indian music, which is beaten with the hands.

In the design of a double cone drum, a form of tube drums, it resembles the South Indian drums mridangam and Maddale, the north Indian dholak, the northeastern Indian khol, the Nepalese pashchima and leaner pung of Manipur.

The pakhawaj consists of an asymmetric, barrel-shaped wooden body. The skins are attached with a V-String tension on the body. The drum is tuned with wooden blocks under the strain. The skins have different size. The higher coat is provided on the outside with an eye of a black voting paste. The bass skin is outside complained before the game with a moist paste of flour or semolina.

Due to the complex structure of fur blends with the pakhawaj a differentiated sound spectrum cause. The player sits cross-legged on the floor and the instrument is transverse in front of him, the bass skin on the left side.

The pakhawaj belongs to a drum type already described its shape around the time of Bharata in his Natyashastra music known ensemble of works under the name ankika (Sanskrit, " lying on its side "). It is mainly played in the classical music of North India. Because of their deep, powerful sound, it serves in particular to the accompaniment of the venerable and serious dhrupad vocal style and the rudra vina, but can also be played solo. In addition, it is used to accompany the Kathak, a North Indian dance. In less strict classical khyal style it was the tabla, a boiler drum pair, displaced.

The pakhawaj how the tabla drum own language, each stop has an onomatopoeic syllables (bol ). The Pakhawajspieler can recite a composition without drum and memorize the rhythms.

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