Rajasthani desert folk tune - 5.5mins
For most of the year you can find Kishna and / or his brother Neru around Gangaur Ghat in Udaipur playing Rajasthani folk tunes from the desert on their rawan-hatta's.
These instruments normally have one main horsehair string and a longer steel string with up to a dozen or more steel sympathetic strings under the bowed ones. The bow uses horsehair and has a cluster of small bells at the tip.
The strings are attached to a bamboo stem one and a half to three feet long which in turn is attached to a half shell of coconut with a goat-skin resonator. Due to the shortage of horse-tails in Udaipur ... they now use a long-lasting thicker nylon main string and violin nylon strings for the bow. The horsehair strings wore out very quickly and the few horse owners in Udaipur started complaining!
Photo: Kishna performing at Gangaur Ghat on Lake Pichola, Udaipur