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Kokant Sheinzit Banjo (Three-Stringed Banjo)
Yamanay wood is used to make the body of banjo, while the sound box is made of skin. This three-stringed banjo has sound holes underneath. The tuning keys are also made of wood. It has to be played by plucking or fretting the strings.\n-2 feet 6 inches in length\n-5.5 inches in length of sound box\n-3.5 inches in height of sound box\n-1 feet 11 inches in length of fingerboard
Myanmar -
Kokant Shaung Palwei (Bamboo flute)
The dried bamboo stick is perforated the Holes- vent hole, finger holes, a hole between vent hole and finger holes seal with a piece of thin paper, and open holes at two ends- with burnt iron. It is played the traditional music by blowing air through the mouth piece while opening and closing the finger holes.\n-1 feet 9 inches in length\n-2.5 inches in diameter\n-7.5 inches in distance between the vent hole and one end\n-1 feet in length between the vent hole and first finger hole\n-1 inch in same distance between finger holes
Myanmar -
Kokant Sarna Hne: Gyi (Oboe)
It has to be played by blowing air through a reed made of corn husk, while opening and closing the finger holes.\n-3 feet 9 inches in total length\n-2 feet in length of oboe\n-1 feet 9 inches in length of brass-cast megaphone\n-6 inches in diameter of brass-cast megaphone
Myanmar -
Wunpawng Sumpyi Palwei (Flute)
In 1950, a man, named Paw Shwun Hla Phu, from Sa-non-bon Region, was the very first person who played this flute to express his grief over the death of his beloved wife. With the passage of time, he was able to seek solace and later he played flute in his village. It was so pleasing that he was requested by the reverend priest U Down Phaung Non to give a performance in the church on February 3, 1952, and in Galoun Tahtaung Church for the second time on March 2. On April 6, 1954, his performance was titled Wunpawng Sumpyi. When the chieftain Duwar Zawsai heard his playing, he was asked to entertain. They awarded him for his great performance. Later, Wunpawng Sumpyi flute was played together with gong and two other traditional musical instruments and Wunpawng Sumpyi orchestra was formed. \nBamboo grows in the wild in hilly region, which must expose to the sunlight, is used to make this flute. A total of six holes are perforated on this bamboo stick. The second last finger hole is seal up. It is played by blowing into mouth piece and by opening and closing of the finger holes on the flute. Western music also can be played with this flute. The flute sounds Key of C. It is played in some special events such as new year festival, campfire festivity, harvesting festival, housewarming ceremony and wedding ceremony.\n-1 feet 5 inches in length\n-1.5 inches in circumference\n-1.5 inches in distance from mouth piece to the top\n-6.5 inches in distance from mouthpiece from the first finger hole\n-2.5 inches in length from the top to the last finger hole
Myanmar -
Kachin Paw Mi Chaung Shar (Bamboo Reed Instrument)
The bamboo stick is perforated with a knife when it is not completely dried. It has to be played with a thumb, while exhaling and inhaling the air. It produces the three kinds of sound- high-pitched sound, low-pitched sound, and neither high- nor low- pitched sound.\n-4.5 inches in length
Myanmar -
Taaung Palaung Maun (Traditional Gong)
It is made of brass by casting it. It makes a sound when striking its boss.\n-11 inches in length\n-3 inches in the diameter of boss\n-3 inches in thickness
Myanmar -
Kokant Shanmyal Mi Gyaung Shar (Bamboo Reed Instrument)
The bamboo stick is perforated with a knife when it is not completely dried. It has to be played with a thumb, while exhaling and inhaling the air. It produces the three kinds of sound- high-pitched sound, low-pitched sound, and neither high- nor low- pitched sound.\n-4.5 inches in length
Myanmar -
Dumba or Pahke (Buffalo’s Horn)
Bamboo grows in the wild in hilly region is used to make this oboe. The bamboo stick is needed to be dried first. And then, holes are perforated on it with the use of drill. It has to change the sizes of drills depending on the sizes of oboes. The oboes are in three different sizes- big, medium and small. Each of them has a total of four perforated holes. A thumb hole is perforated on the lower side with the distance of an inch from the first finger hole. The four finger holes must be made with same distance. Reed made of dried straw is inserted on one end of oboe and young female buffalo's horn is put on another end. The horn and oboe are decorated with manau traditional designs. The player must blow the reed made of straw to play this oboe by opening and closing the finger holes. Dumba is played in Manau festival, housewarming ceremony, honoring ceremony, Htaungkar Dance festival and funeral rite. There are designated melodies for different occasions.\n-2 feet 6 inches in length\n-2.5 inches in length if dried straw reed\n-1.5 inches in length of oboe\n-10 inches in length of buffalo horn\n-9 inches in circumference of horn
Myanmar -
Kachin Htaung Kyein Ozi (Long-Drum)
Hard wood is curved in a shape of pitcher and made hollow. The leather is stretched over the head of Ozi. Unlike Myanmar traditional pot-drums and Jeinpaw traditional pot-drums, it has a long throat. The shaped of chicken breast or Kyat Yin is lacquered with black resin. The throat of Padinewin is painted in the strips of red and black colours. It has to be played by striking its drumhead.\n-4 feet 6 inches in height\n-11 inches in diameter of drumhead\n-1 feet 5 inches in the circumference of drumhead\n-1 feet 2 inches in the circumference of Padain\n-3 feet 2 inches in length of throat\n-1.5 inches in height of base part\n-3 feet 2 inches in circumference of base part
Myanmar -
Kachin Shoutshan Lagwin (Small Cymbals)
They are made of brass by casting it. A pair of cymbals must be played by clapping each other.\n-8 inches in length\n-4 inches in diameter of boss\n-2 inches in the breadth of brim
Myanmar -
Lha-soel: Offerings to the god
The term Lha means God and Soel means Offering or prayer. The tradition is considered a Bon tradition because the ritual involves only Bon practices. \nAccording to Sam Van Schaik, the Bon tradition, also referred to as the Bonpo religion, probably originated in the eleventh century, as there is no evidence of systematic religion in Tibetan before the arrival of Buddhism, and it was in the eleventh century that the Bon tradition formulated its scriptures, mainly from Termas (hidden treasures) and visions of Tertons (treasure discoverers) such as Loden Nyingpo. Although the Bon Terma contain myths that Bon existed before the introduction of Buddhism to Tibet, "the 'old religion' was in fact a new religion." Some scholars consider Bon to be a distinct sub-school or religious order within Tibetan Buddhism.\n\nBon flourished in Tibet before Buddhism. Over time, Buddhism became more popular and Bon became less popular. The Bon tradition also existed in Bhutan before Buddhism took hold. Although the Bon tradition was not strongly recognized by the people of Bhutan, it still existed in every corner of the country, making this tradition one of the oldest in Bhutan.\n\nThe Bon practitioners in Wangdiphodrang Dzongkhag (district), such as the communities of Gaseng Tshogom, Khatoekha and Lhashing Tsawa, performed a common ritual known as Lhab-soel every three years. The ritual is organized by one of the Pawo (male shaman) and Neljorm/Pamo (female shaman) of each village. They alternate hosting the program every three years. The organizer of each year prepares the Lhasoel rituals. The tents are pitched near the organizer's house. The Lha-soel ritual takes two whole days.\n\nThe Bon tradition is based entirely on the belief that the earth, rocks, cliffs, trees, sun, moon, stars, etc. are the protectors, and therefore they take refuge and offer animals as sacrifices.\n\nIn an interview with 68-year-old shaman Aum (elderly woman) Kencho Om from Nakey-kha village in Sangbekha gewog, Haa Dzongkhag, who has been a Pamo for 25 years, it is said that the Pamos are identical to the Nyeljoms and are common throughout central and eastern Bhutan. They are the female mediums who are possessed by local deities. Their job is to diagnose and cure diseases through divination and rituals.\n\nIt is believed that Pamo continuously persists through the family line. When the practitioner mother dies, the spirit passes to her daughter. However, it depends on the decision of the deity or god to choose the legitimate wife among the daughters or granddaughters. Aum Kencho has no formal education, but they have somehow learned all the chanting that has been transmitted to them through their heredity. \n\nAccording to her, Pamo plays an important psychological and healing role in a rural society where the supernatural is a part of life (which normal people cannot do, such as mediate through the mind). The Bhutanese believe that illnesses are due to an imbalance in the various elements that make up the body, and that they are often caused by one of the numerous vengeful spirits associated with certain symptoms that consist of energy channels (Tsa), the wind channel (Lung), and the seed channel (Thig-le) in the human body. When these channels unbalance each other, it causes illness in people. \n\nThe Lha-soel is held at the beginning of the 6th month (July) and another in the 12th month (January) according to the Bhutanese calendar. It is performed twice a year (summer and winter). In summer, they perform a shortened ritual (Due-pa) in the evening, while in winter they perform a grand ritual (Gye-pa) that usually lasts from evening to the next morning. Although there is no specific time, the ritual is performed either on the 8th, 10th, 15th, 25th and 30th of the month.
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Ebru, Turkish art of marbling
Ebru is the traditional art of creating colorful patterns by sprinkling and brushing color pigments on a pan of oily water and then transforming this pattern to a special paper. It has been a traditional art of book enriching calligraphy and binding books for many centuries. In the 13th century, the first forms of Ebru emerged in Central Asia and spread to Anatolia through Iran. During the Ottoman period, Turkish calligraphers and artists created new forms and perfected techniques.\nEbru is an art which consists in the production of certain patterns and effects, by means of color containing a few drops of ox-gall (kind of natural acid helping the colors sprinkle on the gum) so prepared as to float upon a preparation of condensed liquid with the use of kitre (kind of herbal gum), possessing certain properties to the colors prepared for the purpose and which color floated and formed into patterns upon the surface of the liquid, are taken off by laying on a sheet of paper.\nSeveral patterns such as gelgit, tarakli, hatip, bülbül yuvasi, çiçekli evolved over centuries. The colored effects of Ebru are achieved through patterns; that is by employing stereotype designs. The colors are natural pigments acquired by natural methods and most popularly employed colors are bright, fresh green, red and yellow. In other words, the designs or motifs indicate their common pattern. The most frequently seen designs are flowers, foliage, ornamental, latticework, mosque, first quarter moon and other images.
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