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Description: | The dramnyan accompanies vocal music. Like most examples from the Tawang district, this instrument is based on the 7-stringed Bhutanese model (see Horniman Museum number 1972.180) with a peg near the middle of the neck for a short string and a dragon-head finial. The instrument was made by a Bhutanese monk, Lama Jhenkiong, and fitted with a bridge, strings and plectrum by Tashi Norbu, a member of the Monpa community from Bomjar village in the Tawang district.
Dramnyan (Monpa), dranyen, sgra-snyan (Tibetan), lute with six strings. The neck, upper fingerboard and tripartite body, with a rectangular stringholder at its base, are carved from a single piece of wood. A goatskin soundtable, supporting a wooden bridge, is adhered to the circular lower body. The upper body is carved as a figure of eight and is enclosed by a wooden soundtable extending from the lower fingerboard. The lower section has a pair of curved sound holes. The pegbox, with holes for six strings, is closed and takes the form of a sickle-shaped dragon's neck, with an ornately carved finial in the form of the dragon's head. The lowest hole in the pegbox lacks a peg. The shortest of the six nylon strings is pegged from the side of the neck. The bridge is built to accommodate the six nylon strings that are tied to a wound wire attached to the wooden stringholder.The lep, a stag horn plectrum (2005.157.3) is also tied to the wire. The pegs are long, straight and roughly rectangular in cross section.
caption: Half-lateral view from right of object no. 2005.157.
caption: Frontal view of object no. 2005.157. | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Rights holder: | Horniman Museum and Gardens | Subjects: | lutes wood nylon 321.321 Necked bowl lutes horn skin | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-141311 | Go to resource |
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