SUPARNO SAHA
TRIBAL MUSIC INSTRUMENTS
Dance and music instruments have been a part of the tribal community since time immemorial . Indian tribal dance and music is tuned with the idea of the event whether it is social or ceremonial . The three most quintessential instruments in tribal music are two sorts of drums , one is called Tumda and the other Tamak , other than Tiriao or flute . The Tumda is a twofold drum looking like a frustum , the drum skins at left and right are made of animal skins . The one at the left has greater perimeter than the other . The Tamak has a hemispherical shape , with a more extensive outline and is played by two drum sticks . Tiriao or essentially a bansuri is a bamboo made melodic instrument with five gaps . Some of the most used tribal instruments of India are described here .
Tirio : The instrument , most used by the Santal tribe , is bamboo flute with seven gaps . It is seen as an images of adoration and enticement .
Dhodro banam : This is a bowed instrument cut out of a solitary log of wood of a tree which , as indicated by Santal story , grew out of the tissue of a person . It comprises of a stomach ( lac ) secured with a creature skin on which rests the extension ( sadam , lit , horse ), a chest ( korom ), a short neck ( hotok ) and a head ( bohok ) which is regularly flawlessly cut in the state of a human head , or of creatures . If the shape is a head , the tuning peg is embedded in the ear ( lutur ), and the gut string turns out the mouth .
Phet banam : It is a fretless stringed instrument with three or four strings . The bended paunch of the instrument is totally secured by animal hide .
Tumdak : Tumdak is otherwise called madol , is a trustworthy drum with a body of brunt mud . The two heads the left one more extensive than the former are secured by bullock skin and are beaten by the left and right hand .
Tamak : This is a bowl moulded pot drum . Its body is made of thin metal sheets , secured by bullock hide and beaten by a couple of sticks .
Junko : It is the lower leg chimes , which are fixed to the feet of artists from where they deliver rhythmical sounds .
Singa : Singa is an S-formed breeze instrument played in sets in weddings . Made of metal of copper , it is typically developed in the three penetrates with mouthpiece at the blowing end and a conic opening at the other .
The tribal melodies likewise have comparative assortment like their dance , for the Santali tribe , the word for tune is " Sereng ". For the most part , their singing goes with dancing , however there are a few tunes which do exclude dance . The most common tribal dance form is a gathering of ladies with interlocked hands shaping a half circle , encompassing a moderately littler gathering of male percussionists at the inside . This sort of melody is sung amid the sowing of paddy . The " Gam Sereng " is another kind of melody which is sung in sweltering summer evenings .
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