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Lawraw Pohaung Qhid Zang Taung (Two string violin)
  • Manage No PI00004470
    Country Myanmar
    Year 2014-08-15
    ICH Domain Performing Arts, Traditional craft skills
Description Hard wood is made the arm of violin and dried gourd was made for sound box in ancient time. Wood has to be made sound box. The head of sound body was covered frog skin in the ancient time. Nowadays, it is covered by thin skin like as fish and snake. It is put on two strings of guitar string no(1). First string is called Saw Tune and second string is called Daw tune. Bow was made horse tail in ancient time. Nowadays, it is made of Nylon string. Bow is put on between two string to play. Saw tuning and Daw tuning is based to produce pitch by pressing strings. -2 feet 7.5 inches in Length -2 feet 3.5 inches in Length of the arm of violin -4 inches in Length of sound body -5.5 inches in High -1 feet in Girth -2 feet 7 inches in Length of bow -2 feet 1 inch in Length of the string of bow
Place Myit Kyi Nar Township, Kachin state File Size 271KB
Definition 1320 X 880 File Format PNG
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