Chikara: India musical instrument
The chikara is a bowed stringed musical instrument from Bengal, India. The musical instrument used to play the Indian folk music. The inst...
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The chikara is a bowed stringed
musical instrument from Bengal, India. The musical instrument used to play the
Indian folk music. The instrument is played by the tribal people of Rajasthan,
Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh.
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The musical instrument is a simple
spike fiddle that is played analogously to the sarangi or saringda, by sliding
fingernails on the strings of the instrument instead of pressing them to touch
the fingerboard. The musical instrument has three strings, two horse hair and
one steel string, in three courses and can be tuned C, F, G.
The name, ‘chikara’ is normally used
ambiguously to describe a variety of unrelated folk fiddles of the northern
part of India.