Flute is a melodious musical insturment with six melodies (FG,FD,FC,FB,FA and FG ). There are, according to Ikram, two types of flutes; front-flutes and the side-flutes. He says that the front-flute is easy to play and is available at cheaper rates, whereas the side-flute is comparatively expensive with special skills required to play it. Celebrities like Bakir Sahab, Ustad Papu, Khadim Hussain Haideri and Ustad Noshad are some popular flute players of Pakistan.
The algoza is a Punjabi woodwind instrument adopted by Sindhi folk musicians, also called a Jorhi or Ngoza. It resembles a pair […]
The dhol is a double-sided barrel drum played mostly as an accompanying instrument in regional music forms. In Qawwali music, the term […]
Farida Khanum (born 1935) is a Pakistani Ghazal singer from Punjab. The Times of India has called her “Malika-e-Ghazal” (Queen of Ghazal). […]
The bulbul tarang (Hindi: literally “waves of nightingales”, alternately Indian banjo) is a string instrument from India and Pakistan which evolved from […]
