Tumbi
Tumbi , Punjabi ਤੂੰਬੀ tūmbī , also thumbi, is a North Indian plucked instrument with a simple round sound body , which is usually made from a pumpkin . This single-string spit lute of the ektara type, used in folk and religious music in Indian and Pakistani Punjab , is the characteristic melody instrument in the bhangra music style and is played there with two rhythm instruments: the double-headed drum dhol (or dholak ) and the pincer-shaped percussion idiophone chimta . The musician holds the tumbi with one hand at the transition from the body to the neck and plucks the string with the index finger of the same hand, while with the other hand shortens the string on the fingerboard.
Tumbi is the feminine form of the word tumba , which in Indian stringed instruments denotes the sound box made of a calabash. Derived from this, a plucked drum is also called tumba in the folk music of Uttar Pradesh .
literature
- Manorma Sharma: Musical Heritage of India . APH Publishing Corporation 2007, p. 174
- Jacqueline Warwick: "Make way for the Indian": Bhangra music and South Asian presence in Toronto . Popular Music and Society 24 (2) (2000), pp. 25-44
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Keyword: Tumba II . In: Late Pandit Nikhil Ghosh (Ed.): The Oxford Encyclopaedia of the Music of India. Saṅgīt Mahābhāratī. Vol. 3 (P – Z) Oxford University Press, New Delhi 2011, p. 1096