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GOPICHAND
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GOPICHAND (EKTAR)
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This instrument family Ektar or Ektara is known also as Gopiyantra or Khamak, is a very popular Hindu folk Bengal. It is an instrument that is widely used for dance and Baul is said to be the oldest string instrument of India and primitive.
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There are many variations on the construction. It consists of a section of bamboo, which is open and supportive to a resonator that can be coconut, pumpkin or a metal container in which the base has a leather, like a drum, the middle of this patch leaves a wire rope is stretched to the other end at the top of the bamboo on a wooden peg, which can give an instrument to pitch (the pitch of the traditional pattern that is going to sing).
Its size is about 80cm high and 30 cm in diameter. |
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Gopichand's sound is very distinctive. There is a peculiar bending of bamboo between his two hands tightly together where the left hand while his right hand touched the rope. This is a rhythmic and a melodic instrument and used to accompany instruments such as Kartal, equip, or Kohl. It is also used to sing traditional songs and other regions to sing mantras. Can be executed by pulling the string with the nail of the fingers or with a metal plectrum attached to a finger as the sitar (musical instrument of India more complex)
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