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Marlakon Tajo (fiddle)
  • Manage No PI00004920
    Country Myanmar
    Year 2014-06-18
    ICH Domain Performing Arts, Traditional craft skills
Description The body of fiddle(the voice bowl)has to make a hollow as the shape of bowl systematically. Some used to make the brass bowl. Brass bowl can produce more pleasant sound than wood bowl. Its face is tightly stretched with deer-skin or goat skin. The arm of the fiddle is made with wood (teak, iron wood, cutch wood). The rope has to be yarned the type of three-ply rope which is put on the fiddle. Nowadays , the strings of guitar are used to pot on instead of sick-yarns. There is two pegs at the top of the arm of the fiddle so that the string can be made tuning. The statue of parrot is put on the top of fiddle. It can be played by placing on the forks on the ground whereas by placing on the shoulder. It has to play with a bow of fiddle. The bow of fiddle has a string which has to be made with silk-yarn, horse tail whisk or metal-string. -5 inches in the diameter of the body of fiddle -5 inches in the height of the body of fiddle -2 feet in the length of the arm of fiddle -5 inches in the girth of the arm of the fiddle -2 feet 6 inches in the length of the string
Place Sittwe, Rakhine state File Size 205KB
Definition 1320 X 742 File Format PNG
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