The jal tarang is a musical instrument made of ceramic bowls of varying sizes filled with water. The larger bowls produce lower pitch while the smaller bowls produce higher pitch.
If the level of the water in all the bowls is the same, which bowl will produce the highest pitch? The smallest or the largest?
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The musicality of an instrument being completely dependent on the quantity of water it holds may sound a bit weird, but then it is one basic principle that makes the jalatarangam a distinct presence on India’s cultural map. Arranged almost in the shape of a semicircle before the performer, it forms a set of roughly one-and-a-half dozen porcelain bowls containing that colourless H2O liquid, which is actually a common substance covering 71 per cent of the earth’s surface.
Each of the bowls, varied in size though not exactly in shape, is filled with a certain levels of water so as to fix their pitch that finds expression when struck with a pair of wooden sticks. Typically lined up with pots of decreasing sizes from left to right, the instrument produces jingles that lend the music an oriental charm. Obviously, the bigger bowls generate notes of the lower octave, while smaller ones are for the higher registers.
The assembly can sometimes be U-shaped and, in an odd case, the containers can be made of a metal (like aluminium or brass). With all its systemic limitations, this ‘bowl music’ has for long made its mark in Indian classical music. Known as jal tarang in the Hindustani system, the instrument has its equally minuscule number of practitioners down the country in the Carnatic stream too
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