Engineering:Arbajo

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The arbajo is a type of Nepali plucked lute, long-necked and four stringed, now described as largely extinct and superseded by the smaller, rir bowed Nepali sarangi.[1][2][3] Some of the few musicians still playing the arbajo are of the Gaine caste, in Lamjung District and Kaski District of western Nepal.[1]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 James McConnachie; Rough Guides (Firm) (2000). World music: the rough guide. Rough Guides. pp. 198–. ISBN 978-1-85828-636-5. https://books.google.com/books?id=QzX8THIgRjUC&pg=PA198. Retrieved 24 March 2012. 
  2. ↑ Alison Arnold (2000). South Asia: the Indian subcontinent. Taylor & Francis. pp. 698–. ISBN 978-0-8240-4946-1. https://books.google.com/books?id=ZOlNv8MAXIEC&pg=PA698. Retrieved 24 March 2012. . ... one of the most important of these rites is puja 'worship' performed to music of the sararigi and the arbajo, believed to be its predecessor.
  3. ↑ Carol Tingey (December 1994). Auspicious music in a changing society: the Dāmai musicians of Nepal. Heritage Publishers. ISBN 978-81-7026-193-3. https://books.google.com/books?id=wn0HAQAAMAAJ. Retrieved 24 March 2012. . ...ancestry are not confined to the damai, but are prevalent in the folklore of other Indo-Nepalese occupational castes. ... always accompanied by the cow's hoof, which became the (now extinct) plucked lute arbajo (Helffer 1977:51)...