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Amateur expressions of Sikh music tends to rely upon more participation from the general Sikh laity. [1] Instruments used in this form are often hand-held idiophonic percussion instruments, such as the chhaiṇā, chimṭā, and khaṛtāl. [1] The manner of display of amateur forms of Sikh music often is in-contrast to the professional forms. [1]
Musical instruments of the Indian subcontinent can be broadly classified according to the Hornbostel–Sachs system into four categories: chordophones (string instruments), aerophones (wind instruments), membranophones (drums) and idiophones (non-drum percussion instruments).
The traditional story is that the dilruba was invented around 300 years ago by the 10th Sikh Guru, Guru Gobind Singh, who based it on the much older and much heavier taus. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] His innovations made it more convenient for the Sikh army (the khalsa ) to carry the instrument on horseback.
Rababi (Gurmukhi: ਰਬਾਬੀ) is a term used to refer to a player of the rabab instrument.. In the Sikh liturgical tradition, there are three types of musicians—rababis, ragis, and dhadhis, all of which flourished during the period of the gurus.
The dilruba was created some 300 years ago by the 10th Sikh guru, Guru Gobind Singh, who based it on the much older, and heavier, Taus. [2] [3] This made it more convenient for the Khalsa, the Sikh army, to carry the instrument on horseback. [1] According to the folklore, the esraj was created by Ishwari Raj, a musician who lived in Gayadam.
The Sikhs have a number of musical instruments, including the rebab, dilruba, taus, jori and sarinda. Playing the sarangi was encouraged by Guru Hargobind. The rebab was played by Bhai Mardana as he accompanied Guru Nanak on his journeys. The jori and sarinda were introduced to Sikh devotional music by Guru Arjan.
Tā’ūs or Mayūrī (`Peacock vina'), St Cecilia's Hall The taus, originally known as the mayuri veena, [1] is a bowed string instrument from North India.It is a form of veena used in North India with a peacock-shaped resonator called a mayuri, and is played with the neck of the instrument on bow. [2]
Dhadi refers both to a genre of Punjabi music and the performers who play it: a distinctly composed ensemble of ballad-singers. After briefly sketching the long yet hazy background of the art, this article reconstructs its more certain and recent history so far as it can be gleaned from the oral accounts of living dhadi performers.