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Musical Instruments

Music is the heart and soul of Odishan life. It has its natural exuberance in the fields, jungles and temples with the waves and ripples of the social and individual heart bubbling and floating in the winding hilly ways down to the village huts. This prompted in the contrivance of sound generating devices that move and throw along the moods and feelings to whisper from heart to heart and community to community, the voice, the message and the feelings of joy and woe, through the Changu, Nisan, Khanjani, Dholki, Madala, Ghumura and Pakhj.

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