Chiwang

Acho Namgyal playing piwang in 1937

The chiwang (Dzongkha: སྤྱི་དབང་; Wylie: spyi-dbang)[1] is a type of fiddle played in Bhutan.[2] The chiwang, the lingm (flute), and the dramyen (lute) comprise the basic instrumental inventory for traditional Bhutanese folk music.[1]

Although the chiwang is considered typically Bhutanese, it is a variety of the piwang, a Tibetan two-stringed fiddle. It is heavily associated with boedra, one of two dominant genres of Bhutanese folk music, in which it symbolizes a horse.[3]

## See also

* Boedra
* Music of Bhutan

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Kinga, Sonam (2003). "The Attributes and Values of Folk and Popular Songs" (PDF). Journal of Bhutan Studies 3 (1): 132–170. http://www.thlib.org/static/reprints/jbs/JBS_03_01_05.pdf. Retrieved 2011-10-30.
2. ↑ Dorji, C. T (1994). History of Bhutan Based on Buddhism. Sangay Xam; Prominent Publishers. p. 15. ISBN 81-86239-01-4. https://books.google.com/books?id=yA9uAAAAMAAJ. Retrieved 2011-10-30.
3. ↑ Clements, William M. (2006). The Greenwood Encyclopedia of World Folklore and Folklife: Southeast Asia and India, Central and East Asia, Middle East. 2. Greenwood Press. pp. 106–110. ISBN 0-313-32849-8. https://books.google.com/books?id=ZvrWAAAAMAAJ. Retrieved 2011-10-16.

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