Mashak: India musical instrument
The mashak is a kind of bagpipe that is found in the northern part of India and part of Pakistan and Afghanistan. The musical instrument w...
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The mashak is a kind of bagpipe that
is found in the northern part of India and part of Pakistan and Afghanistan.
The musical instrument was linked with weddings and festivals. In India, the
musical instrument is historically seen in Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh. This
musical instrument uses single reeds and can be performed either as a melody
instrument or a drone instrument.
source of picture: metmuseum.org
Some academics disagree with any
indigenous origins of the mashak; in 2000, Ander Burton Alter wrote that the
bagpipe presently played in the Garwhal are Scottish Highland Bagpipes that has
one bass and two tenor drones. Having no local producer, or evidence of
existence before the British rule in the year 1814. Organologist called Anthony
Baines, however, described an immediate development stage wherein Indian music
player imitated the Highland bagpipe by trying an extra pipe or two into their
own version of the musical instrument. Analogously, the new grove dictionary of
musical instrument describes the traditional version of the musical instrument
as becoming rare as it is deposed by the Scottish bagpipe instruments.
