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Tarpa or Pavri

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Folk hornpipe of India

The tarpa or pavri is a type of a hornpipe of the Pungi class. Indeed it is really nothing but a very large pungi that has a gourd or cow horn at­ta­ched to the end. It is gen­erally about 3 to 4 feet in length.

This instrument is found among the Kokna tribes of Western India. It plays a cen­tral posi­tion of the tarpha and pavri dances.

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