Categories: Instruments

Tenteng

Tengteng is a folk instrument of Assam, made of a piece of bamboo having nodes at either end. Two strips of bark from one side of the cylinder is taken removing and scrapping the remaining parts in between. Then bamboo ridges are made at each end of the strips. It is played with a small bamboo stick. This instrument of the Cowherd is not seen now a days.

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