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Snake charming is the practice of appearing to hypnotize a snake (often a cobra) by playing and waving around an instrument called a pungi. A typical performance may also include handling the snakes or performing other seemingly dangerous acts, as well as other street performance staples, like juggling and sleight of hand .
The pungi is played by Jogi in the Thar desert. [11] It is in particular played by snake charmers, mostly in the Terai and Nepal, to arouse snakes to dance. [12] The instrument has a high, thin tone and continuous low humming. [13] It has been an important instrument in Indian folk culture and is known by various names in different parts of India.
The male participants play musical instruments, such as the pungi, a woodwind instrument traditionally played to capture snakes, the dufli, been, the khanjari - a percussion instrument, morchang, khuralio and the dholak to create the rhythm on which the dancers perform. The dancers are tattooed in traditional designs and wear jewelry and ...
Pungi: पुँगी Snake-charmer's flute a double reed woodwind with two reed pipes (one a drone) attached to small gourd, a mouth-blown air hole at the top of the gourd. Simpler instrument than the bin; it lacks the bin's holes on the drone pipe, for changing scale. Learners may use this before going on to the bin.
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Snake Charmers in Kolkata, 1945, Norman Herfort, from vintage film negative, State Library of New South Wales, ON 388/Box 076/Item 013; Width: 7,039 px: Height: 5,333 px: Pixel composition: Black and white (Black is 0) Orientation: Normal: Number of components: 4: Horizontal resolution: 1 dpi: Vertical resolution: 1 dpi: Software used: Adobe ...