Assamese musical instruments information

This is a list of musical instruments used in traditional music of Assam, India.Folk instruments of assam "Home". Anvesha.co.in. Archived from the original...

Tokari (Assamese: টোকাৰী) is a stringed instrument played with the fingertips. The Tokari is the most widely used and popular stringed instruments in different...

Vyas claims several percussion instruments such as the Dhol maybe came from the influence of some clay-made instruments that are similar to the Dhol, which...

dotar) (Assamese: দোতোৰা dûtûra, Bengali: দোতারা, Rangpuri: দোতোৰা dotora, literally, “Of [or ‘having’] two strings”) is a two-stringed, plucked musical instrument...

ultimate origin of the musical instrument is contested by scholars, though some trace its evolution from indigenous musical instruments of the Indian subcontinent...

songs) in Assam. Assamese polymath Sankardeva is known to have adapted and evolved the tradition of gayan-bayan by using musical instruments like the khol...

started his musical career accompanying his brother and later made his name as singer and composer in his own right. Jayanta was the first Assamese composer...

of Assamese poems. (There is still confusing to call them poems since they were sung with musical instruments like KHOL and TAAL). List of Assamese poets...

Indian state of Assam related to the Bihu festival and an important part of Assamese culture. Performed in a group, the Bihu dancers are usually young men and...

a number of musical instruments, including a few that are now obsolete, built a miniature museum and later used the obscure instruments to perform orchestras...

Sonowals, Morans) who brought the instrument along with them from their ancestral lands. The number of holes in the Assamese Xutuli indicates that the Sadiyal...

enlighten us on the musical expertise of the Assamese women.[citation needed] The connoisseurs however, have divided the classical Assamese music into two...

create an Assamese culture. Residents of the state of Assam are known as "Axomiya" (Assamese). Most tribes have their own language, although Assamese is the...

Zubeen Garg (; born Zubeen Borthakur Assamese pronunciation: [zubin bɔɹtʰakuɹ]; 18 November 1972) is an Indian singer–songwriter, composer, lyricist, music...

Sattriya (Assamese: সত্ৰীয়া), or Sattriya Nritya, is a major Indian classical dance. It was initially created as part of Bhaona which are performances...

घुँघरू, Urdu: گھنگرو), also known as ghunghroo or ghunghru or ghungur(in Assamese and Bengali) or ghungura (in Odia) or Chilanka or Salangai or Gejje (in...

This article contains the Assamese alphabet. Without proper rendering support, you may see errors in display. The culture of Assam is traditionally a hybrid...

establishment of the Baan Stage (old) or Baan theatre, the first modern Assamese theatre hall at Tezpur in 1906. The Baan Stage gave a platform for development...

the indigenous ethnic groups of Assam, and marks the beginning of the Assamese New Year. The festival is of mostly aboriginal origin comprising Tibeto-Burman...

versed in Assamese which is used as lingua-franca to communicate with other indigenous Assamese communities. Many of the plain Karbis use Assamese as their...

largest instrument of the type, or for surrogate instruments such as the gong komodong or gong bumbung (blown gong) which fill the same musical function...

and are based on themes like Assamese new year, farmers' daily life, love and more. Bihu music is played with instruments like dhol, mohor singor pepa...

and a few Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Gujarati, Odia and Assamese films. His musical ability was widely recognised and acknowledged in the Indian...

of Assamese Micro-Nationalism". Modern Asian Studies. 28 (3): 649–671. doi:10.1017/S0026749X00011896. S2CID 144065698. Phukan, Mitra (2003) Musical Identity...