Engineering:Chardha

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Short description: Stringed instrument
Chardha built by Nashenas Naujawân. Front view.
Turkish-style oud, as played in Turkey, Greece, Armenia, etc.
Chardha built by Nashenas Naujawân. Side view.

The Chardha (also Charda, Chardah or Hunza Rubab) is a stringed instrument from Pakistan and Afghanistan, from and mainly played in the Hunza valley and Gilgit-Baltistan province.[1][2][3][4][5][6] It has 4 or 5 main playing strings made of gut or nylon, and many metal resonance strings.[7]

References

  1. ↑ "ATLAS of Plucked Instruments - Central Asia". https://atlasofpluckedinstruments.com/central_asia.htm#npakistan. 
  2. ↑ "Indus Blues documents musical traditions dying out in Pakistan". https://www.thethirdpole.net/2019/07/11/indus-blues-documents-musical-traditions-dying-out-in-pakistan/. 
  3. ↑ "INSTRUMUNDO Instrumentos Musicales: Chardha, Chardah, Hunza Rabab". April 15, 2019. https://instrumundo.blogspot.com/2019/04/chardha-chardah-hunza-rabab.html. 
  4. ↑ "Indus Blues | An Indie Meme Presentation". https://www.indiememe.org/indus-blues. 
  5. ↑ "An elegy to music". https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/383387-an-elegy-to-music. 
  6. ↑ "Salman Rashid: From Timber to Tenor". https://odysseuslahori.blogspot.com/2016/07/SalmanRashid.html. 
  7. ↑ "The Shahnameh Guide To The Lutes Of Central Asia". https://shahnameh.netlify.app/chardha.htm. 



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