Indian

Musical
Instrument
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Q1
The X is a frame drum of South India. It consists of a skin (usually
iguana) stretched and pasted on a circular wooden frame. There are
often three or four slots in the side of the frame, in which bell-metal
jingle-disks are suspended from metal crossbars. The name X is
related to the khanjari and kanjani of North and East India and
Nepal. The X is tuned to various pitches by wetting the skin. It is
held at the bottom of the frame by the left hand, which also varies
the tension of the skin, and is beaten with the fingers of the right
hand.
KANJIRA
Q2
The X is an elongated barrel-shaped drum found
predominantly in South India. It is derived from the
pakhawaj and is used as the primary rhythmic
accompaniment in Carnatic music as well as in religious
Kirtan music. In the east (Bengal, Odisha), this barrel-
shaped drum is known as the khol.
MRIDANGAM
Q3
X 'Of or having two wires' is a two, four, or sometimes five-stringed
musical instrument, originating from Bengal. It is commonly used in
Bangladesh and the Indian states of Assam, West Bengal and Bihar,
and is first mentioned in a 14th-century Saptakanda Ramayana. Later,
it was adopted by the ascetic cults of Bauls and Fakirs.
IDENTIFY X?
DOTARA
Saptakanda Ramayana is the
Assamese version of Ramayana
By Madhava Kandali
An Assamese poet.
Q4
The X, is a string percussion instrument from South India. It consists
of a large resonator (kudam) carved and hollowed out of a log
(usually of jackwood), a tapering neck of 1 to 2 feet long, a string
tuning box and four metal strings attached from the kudam to the
tuning box. X strings are played with two small wooden or bamboo
sticks, one on each hand, to create rhythmic patterns or a percussive
development.
IDENTIFY X?
JHALLARI
Q5
The X is a stringed instrument, used mainly in Hindustani music on
the Indian subcontinent. Along with the sitar, it is among the most
popular and prominent instruments. It is known for a deep, weighty,
introspective sound, in contrast with the sweet, overtone-rich texture
of the sitar, with sympathetic strings that give it a resonant,
reverberant quality. A fretless instrument, it can produce the
continuous slides between notes known as meend (glissandi), which
are important in Indian music. It resembles to the Afghani Rebab.
IDENTIFY X?
SAROD
Q6
The X is a plucked stringed instrument, originating from the
Indian subcontinent, used in Hindustani classical music. The
instrument was invented in medieval India and flourished in the 16th
and 17th centuries and arrived at its present form in 18th-century
India.
Used widely throughout the Indian subcontinent, the X became
popularly known in the wider world through the works of
Ravi Shankar, beginning in the late 1950s and early 1960s.[1] In the
1960s, a short-lived trend arose for the use of the
sitar in Western popular music, with the instrument appearing on
SITAR
Q7
The X is a member of the family of membranophone percussion
instruments of India and Nepal used in folk music and prayers in
Tamil Nadu. The drums are an ancient design of hourglass drums
similar to the northern damaru and southern idakka. Its shape is
similar to other Indian hourglass drums, having a small snare
stretched over one side. They are played with the bare hand, and the
pitch may be altered by squeezing the lacing in the middle. It is made
of wood or brass and is very portable.[1] It originated in Tamil Nadu as
well.
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Q8
In Indian and Sri Lankan tradition, the X is believed to have
originated among the Hela people of Lanka during the time of the
legendary king Ravana, after whom the instrument is supposedly
named. According to legend, Ravana used the X in his devotions to
the Hindu God Shiva. In the Hindu Ramayana epic, after the war
between Rama and Ravana, Hanuman returned to North India with a
X. The X is particularly popular among street musicians in Rajasthan,
North India.
IDENTIFY X?
RAVANHATTA
Q9
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PANDIT SHIVKUMAR
SHARMA
Q10
The X (literally means waves in water) is a melodic percussion
instrument which originates from the Indian subcontinent. It consists
of a set of ceramic or metal bowls filled with water. The bowls are
played by striking the edge with beaters, one in each hand.
The earliest mention of the X is found in 'Vatsyayana's Kamasutra' as
playing on musical glasses filled with water.
IDENTIFY X?
JAL TARANG
Q11
X In the tradition of the Indian gurukul system of teaching, thus folk
tales are a secondary source of its history. Also referred as a jawpipe,
In India it is found mainly in South India, Rajasthan and also in some
parts of Assam. It is also sometimes used while playing
Rabindrasangeet in Bengal and in Assamese folk songs. In South
India, it features in Carnatic concerts and percussion ensembles.
IDENTIFY X?
MORSING or MORCHANG
Q12
X has religious ritual importance in Hinduism.
In Hindu mythology, the X is a sacred emblem of The Hindu
preserver god Vishnu. It is still used as a trumpet in Hindu ritual, and
in the past was used as a war trumpet. The X is praised in Hindu
scriptures as a giver of fame, longevity and prosperity, the cleanser of
sin and the abode of goddess Lakshmi, who is the goddess of wealth
and consort of Vishnu.
The X is displayed in Hindu art in association with Vishnu. X is the
state emblem of the Indian state of Kerala and was also the national
emblems of the Indian princely state of Travancore, and the
SHANKHA