A large four-stringed lute used in Indian music as a drone accompaniment.
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There are four main families of musical instruments in Pakistan and more than six hundred Pakistani musical instruments; the most well known are the sitar, veena, rabab, sur mandal and tanpura.
She studied the vina and the tanpura.
The head said the school worked hard to give the youngsters the chance to try out a range of instruments from different cultures, including African drums and Asian sitars and tanpuras.
The dhindis, typically, comprise a kirthankar (a lead singer and group leader), who could be of either gender, carrying a tanpura (stringed instrument).
In this trio setting, Singh's amplified tablas are the main focus, punching out loudly over a thin-sounding sarangi and a tanpura drone.
The shruti from two tanpuras set the stage for an hour-long performance.
Youngsters are learning the Tabla and Tanpura.
The only other essential instrument is the tanpura, whose open strings are plucked continuously all evening, providing an organ-like background.
From the tanpura to the violin all those who chance to visit Dakshinachitra then, can touch, feel and try playing some of them.
He has talked of trying to de-stress himself while writing with tanpura strumming and raag alap.
Tanpuras come in different sizes and pitches: bigger ‘males’ and smaller ‘females’ for vocalists and yet a smaller version that is used for accompanying sitar or sarod, called tamburi or tanpuri.
He told me that once he sits down for practice with the tanpura, he does not get up for four to five hours!
She signalled to her maid to fetch the tanpura from the corner.
In fact, she played tanpura for several Indian musicians in New York concerts between the years 1958 and 1967.
Particular emphasis is placed on the advent of electronic instrumentation, such as digital tablas and tanpuras and experimentations in fusion music.
The ubiquitous drone is there, of course, now provided by the tanpura (a four to six stringed fretless instrument made of wood and usually combined with gourd).
The new recorded sruti device, while cutting out the laborious transportation of the tanpura with its resonator and providing a drone like effect, can never match the sound of the original filling the auditorium with its resonance.
Whether singing an Indian inspired song with a tanpura, rocking out at the piano, calling out over electronic samples or screaming over an electric guitar, she likes to make her performances a unique experience each time.
Instead of the old traditional musical instruments like the tanpura and the tabla, the instruments used in a remix are digital drums and synthesisers, and even the voice of the singer can be and is electronically manipulated.
She also studied Sanskrit and learned to play the musical instruments the vina and tanpura.