EKTARA - GOPI-YANTRA
Rudra-Vina
| Saraswati-Vina | Vichitra-Vina
Hansa-Vina | Santur
| Sursringar | Dotar
| Mohan Vina
Swarmandal / Surmandal
| Ektara
/ Gopi-Yantra
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EKTARA / GOPI-YANTRA
Ek
means "one" and Tar means"string".
The Ektar or -as it is often called - the Gopi Yantra,
is a simple instrument that is mainly used in Bengal as
a folk instrument. In some places this instrument is offered
in souvenir shops in a very cheap qualitiy. The quality
offered by us is much better than that.
The Ektara has a spherical resonator made of dried pumpkin,
wood or coconut to which a split bamboo cane is attached
as a neck. Into an opening at the bottom of the resonator
a piece of leather is set and to this a string is attached.
This string runs through the inside of the spherical resonator
and between the forks of the bamboo cane up to the top
end of the neck and is wrapped around a peg there. The
string of the Ektara is plucked with one finger, the pitch
can be changed continually downwards by more and more
pressing the two halves of the neck together. Thus the
keynote here is the highest note of the open string.
All prices include 19 % German
sales tax.
Customers outside the European Common Market get a reduction
of 19 %.
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Converter how much this is in US Dollars or other
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Ektara
/ Gopi-Yantra: 59,-- Euro
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