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  2. List of Indian musical instruments - Wikipedia

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    A medieval instrument, labeled nagaveena (snake veena), is a type of musical scraper. Chigggjha – fire tong with brass jingles; Chengila – metal disc; Eltathalam; Gegvrer – brass vessel; Ghaynti – Northern Indian bell; Ghatam and Matkam (Earthenware pot drum) Ghunyugroo; Khartal or Chiplya; Manjira or jhanj or taal; Nut – clay pot ...

  3. QuikSCAT - Wikipedia

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    A new instrument, the SeaWinds scatterometer, was carried on the satellite. The SeaWinds instrument, a specialized microwave radar system, measured both the speed and direction of winds near the ocean surface. It used two radars and a spinning antenna to record data across nine-tenths of the oceans of the world in a single day.

  4. Bharatiya Sangeet Vadya - Wikipedia

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    A modern scientific classification of instruments based on intensity, pitch, range etc. has been envisaged in the twelfth chapter. Iconic and aesthetic elements of instruments have been discussed in the thirteenth chapter. Instruments are a vehicle conveying essential nature of others to the artiste while transporting his emotions to listeners.

  5. Bulbul tarang - Wikipedia

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    The strings run over a Fretboard which is known Surpatti in Hindi, while above are keys resembling typewriter keys, which when depressed fret or shorten the strings to raise their pitch. Taisho Koto, probably first imported into India in the 1930s, which has caught on both in India and Pakistan and become a legitimate instrument, now called ...

  6. Nadaswaram - Wikipedia

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    The nadaswaram [note 1] is a double reed wind instrument from South India. [1] It is used as a traditional classical instrument in Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka and Kerala [2] and in the northern and eastern parts of Sri Lanka. This instrument is "among the world's loudest non-brass acoustic instruments". [3]

  7. Music of Haryana - Wikipedia

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    Iktara - a stringed instrument with one string, made from a piece of bamboo with a gourd at one end. Associated with the Jogis. The iktara's two-stringed relative is the dotara. Sarangi - a bow instrument, used both in Haryana's folk and classical music; Shankh - a sacred wind instrument, associated with Vishnu; Shehnai - wind instrument

  8. Ghungroo - Wikipedia

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    A pair of ghungroos Kathak dancer Namrata Rai performing with 400 Ghungroos. A ghungroo (Hindi: 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 Malayalam, Tamil and Kannada respectively), is one of many small metallic bells strung together to form ghungroos, a musical ...

  9. Indian harmonium - Wikipedia

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    His disciple, Manohar Chimote, later implemented this concept, also making the instrument more responsive to key pressure, and called the instrument a samvadini—a name now widely accepted. [ 8 ] [ 6 ] Bhishmadev Vedi is also said to have been among the first to contemplate and design compositions specifically for the harmonium, styled along ...