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KHOL
Type: AVANADDHA VADYA
Khol is a percussion instrument made of leather, clay, parchment and rice dust. This traditional instrument is found in West Bengal. Majorly used in traditional and devotional music forms like Kirtan, Bhajan and Baul singing.
KHOL in West Bengal
Material: Clay, parchment, leather, rice dust
Widely used bifacial percussion instrument of clay of the eastern region. Right side head is much smaller and higher-pitched than the left head. The two faces of the drum are covered with layered skin held by braids and thirty two thin leather strips. Right face of the drum loaded with black paste and left with mud and rice dust. Slung from the neck horizontally, played with both the hands. Used in traditional and devotional music forms like Kirtan, Bhajan and Baul singing.
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