Chardha

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

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

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[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.