hammered lute, in deep south of India, struck with two small bamboo mallets.
Getchu vadyam
Related Dictionary Terms
Santoor
Shared keywords
a hammered dulcimer struck with light wooden mallets, indigenous to Kashmir, but nowadays played throughout Northern India. T…
Yang Qin
Shared keywords
Chinese hammered dulcimer played with two bamboo mallets
Bandolín
Shared keywords
small South American Creole lute, pear shaped, and with a fretted neck, that comes in various sizes and ranges and has from 8…
Liu qin
Shared keywords
treble version of the Chinese lute, had originally 2 or 3 strings and 7 frets, but today may have up to 4 steel strings, and…
Tambura
Shared keywords
Accompanying drone instrument from India, a large lute with 4 6 strings; five string Egyptian lyre, long necked fretted lute…
Theorbo
Shared keywords
a large member of the lute family, in use from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, with an extended neck and two sets of s…
Hemiola
Shared keywords
rhythmic pattern where two notes are played in the time allotted to three or where three notes are played in the time allotte…
Hemiolia
Shared keywords
rhythmic pattern where two notes are played in the time allotted to three or where three notes are played in the time allotte…