Instruments
Many different Punjabi instruments contribute to the sound of bhangra. These include tumbi, dhol, sarangi, keyboard,and a variety of other string and percussion instruments. The primary and most important instrument that defines bhangra is the drumset.
The string instruments include the guitar (both acoustic and electrical), bass, sitar, tumbi, violin and sarangi. The snare, toms, dhad, dafli, dholki, and damru are the other drums. The tumbi, originally played by folk artists such as Lalchand Yamla Jatt and Kuldip Manak in true folk recordings and then famously mastered by Chamkila, a famous Punjabi folk singer (not bhangra singer), is a high-tone, single-string instrument.. The sarangi is a multi-stringed instrument, somewhat similar to the violin and is played using meends,
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