This instrument, similar in appearance but functionally belonging to the oral organs, is blown through a pipe on the neck. Seven pipes made of bamboo cane stick out of a bottle gourd during the rasem in the northeast Indian state of Tripura. In addition to wind instruments with reeds, the West Indian tribes play a number of bamboo flutes and natural trumpets such as animal horns and the metal trumpet tutari, which is curved in a semicircle. In contrast to the tarpu, it is not blown on the side, but at the end of the pumpkin neck. The bamboo tube of the pawri has three finger holes. The Mavchi, a subgroup of the Bhil in Maharashtra, play the approximately 60 centimeter long pawri which largely corresponds in shape to the tarpu. The south Indian type, somewhat smaller counterpart to the north indian pungi with two play tubes is the magudi. In Gujarat, it is found among the tribals of Balsar and Surat district. In Gujarat, the smaller variety is often called the Dobru. Tarpo has two kinds, the medium one is Ghogha and the larger one, sometimes of about 2 metres in length is the Khongada. A short tube, inserted into the hole and firmly connected to the pumpkin, forms the mouthpiece. The air vent is not at the tip, but on the side. With the pungi, a bulbous wind capsule from a pumpkin or a coconut shell transfers the blown air to the play tube, here it is a slender bottle gourd with a long, curved neck. A slightly inclined cut along the tube wall creates an idioglotte, a reed that is not visible from the outside and is pushed into a wax gourd. The sound is produced by means of a tongue at the upper end of the tubes according to the principle of the pungi, known as the wind instrument of the snake charmers. The blowing is done in two ways, from the end, where the top of the gourd is cut off and blown into and from the side, where a hole is made in the side of the air reservoir and blown into with a small tube often inserted in the aperture to act as a mouthpiece. Incidentally, it may be suggested that the name of the instrument is itself derivable from tad, the leaves of which are used in making the funnel. Further the tubes have a common funnel of wound Palmyra (tad) leaves, called Karna in Marathi Language, which acts as a sound radiator. This self-made wind instrument is typical for the music of the shepherds, as well as for the local Konknas who mainly grow grain.Īs in the Pungi there are two single reed pipes having three to five holes inserted into the gourd at the lower end. It is used in group dance and folk ensembles in Gujarat and neighboring regions. Here, instead of a small gourd, a larger variety of Doodhia Bhopla ( Marathi) is used as the air chamber fitted with two equal length bamboo reed pipes with a megaphone attached at the open end. It is found mainly in Gujarat and Maharashtra. Tarpu is a wind instrument quite similar to the Pungi.
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