EKTARA / TRADITIONAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENT.

Ektara is literally one-string musical manual instrument, it's one-string instrument but most often used in traditional music Bangladesh also use lot of countries
In origin the ektara was a regular string instrument of wandering bards and minstrels from bangladesh and India is plucked with one finger. The ektara usually has a stretched single string, an animal skin over a head (made of dried pumpkin -- gourd, wood or coconut) and pole neck or split bamboo cane neck.
Pressing the two halves of the neck together loosens the string, thus lowering its pitch. The modulation of the tone with each slight flexing of the neck gives the ektara its distinctive sound. There are no markings or measurements to indicate what pressure will produce what note, so the pressure is adjusted by ear.
The various sizes of ektara are soprano, tenor, and bass. The bass ektara, sometimes called a dotara often has two strings (as literally implied by two). one-headed drum with a string attached to it which is plucked. The only difference from ektara is that no bamboo is used to stretch the string,which is held by one hand, while being plucked by another.
 mention able - our "lalon sha" sang his creative  music by ektara . it's true this instrument are very popular here in south Asia and special in Bangladesh for traditional music .
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