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Mataginifale Women's Group

Sarkarwar wood has to be made hollow guitar body, three strings of edible creeper are put on it. Peg is made with bamboo. Three strings are struck by hand. It can be played traditional song of Lusi, Zaiwar, Lawwal and Larchade. It can be played together with drum, flute and gong during special day and ceremonies.\n-2 feet 3 inches in length\n-9.5 inches in Length of sound body\n-5 inches in Width of sound body\n-2 inches in High of sound body\n-1 feet 6 inches in Length of arm of guitar

The body of the harp is made of good quality Padauk wood. It is not as same as the Myanmar Harp because it is curved in the shape of the hull of a boat. The arm of the harp is made of PJn:ma (kind of large timber tree/ larger stroemiaspecion). The floral scroll-work is curved at the top of the arm and the square shape of the peg is used to tune the strings of harp. The reed of the harp is made of cutch wood. The body of young cow’s skin is covered the body of sound body. There are nine harp strings that are put on it. The creeper strings and the cane strings were yarned together as the harp strings which were used in the past time. Nowadays, steel strings are put on as the harp strings. When making the Karean harp ,first, go to the deep forest and make offering consisting of hands of bananas, coconut etc. The harp is made to be finished in the forest. Before putting the strings on it, it has to be made to gain magical power using star-flower, jasmine, the rock dammar flower, the frangipani flower, the vachellia flower (kind of fragrant flower) and the tiger-lady (species of orchid ). After making the harp, women don’t touch and hold it to make it more magical power according to Karean’s Tradition or custom. \nThe playing method of the Karean Harp is easy and simple. It can be easily learned to play by hearing musical scale up and down when the skillful player is playing it. After tuning the harp strings, it is held tenderly to the bosom. Left hand is placed with five or six strings for opening and closing tunes. The rest of one to four strings have to be played with the right thumb and forefinger.

The ancestors wore the raincoat made of rope twisted the coconut fiber. After discovering the pleasing sound produced by striking the rope of coconut fiber tied the toe, they untied the rope from the toe and fixed at the wood. Then, they played it for the musical sounds. This instrument was addressed as "Chibul" referring the rope untied from the toe. Chi stands for the tip of the foot and "bul" means untying. The frame of banjo is carved out of hard Poezar wood cut during the cold season. The soundboard is closed with the leather in the previous time but with the plywood in the present time. Three strings are fixed it. The sound holes are bored at the up and down walls of the banjo. The strings are fixed at the wood tuning pegs. 12 sounds can be tuned with this banjo including three different sounds of three strings, three pressing sounds, three pushing sounds and three pulling sounds. This banjo is played in the New Year festival, traditional dance, fun fair, and wedding ceremony.\n-2 feet of length\n-7 inches length of the soundboard\n-3 inches height of the soundboard\n-13 inches circumference of the soundboard\n-1 feet 5 inches length of the banjo's arm

Once, A man went to eat honey from forest ranger. Another man also approached him and asked him to give honey but first person didn’t give him. He blocked the hole with giant stone. A few years later, he went there again, he found that bones. He picked a bone and put on strings on it. This instrument was called “Dor Yaw“. Later, it is made with bamboo and wood. Wood of sweet chestnut is made arm of violin and bamboo is covered toad skin. Two strings are put on it. Bow is made U Hlaing tree that from Putao Township. Bow is put between two strings to create high and low pitch.\n-1 feet 7 inches in Length\n-3 inches in Length of sound body\n-9 inches in Girth of sound body\n-4 inches in High of sound body\n-1 feet 3.5 inches in Length of arm of violin