Dohol

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Dohol
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Related instruments

A dohol (Persian: دهل) is a large cylindrical drum with two skinheads. It is generally struck on one side with a wooden stick bowed at the end, and with a large thin stick on the other side, though it is also played with the bare hands. It is the principal accompaniment for the Sorna. A similar instrument, the Dhol, is used in traditional Egyptian, Pakistani and Indian music.

In Balochistan it mostly performed by forming a circle by a group of people, dancing and clapping. Do-Chapi almost always includes Sorna and Dohol.[1][2]

dohol and Tombak play at baloch weddings in Muscat.[3]

The dohol is largely played in Kurdistan with the zurna.

In Iran

The dohol in Iran is mostly played in wedding ceremonies and other celebrations. The dohol is mostly played with a sorna.

In Afghanistan

The dohol in Afghanistan is mostly played on special ceremonies such as wedding ceremonies. The "Surnay or Sorna" is mostly played with it. The Afghan dance Attan is traditionally performed with both the Dohol and Surnay.


  • Dohol drums
    Dohol drums
  • Baloch people performing a dance at the Zabol University
    Baloch people performing a dance at the Zabol University
  • Afghan National Police performing the Attan dance with Dohol and Surnay
    Afghan National Police performing the Attan dance with Dohol and Surnay

See also

References

  1. ^ "دوچاپی آیینی ماندگار در سیستان و بلوچستان" (in Persian). 14 August 2018. Retrieved 22 December 2023.
  2. ^ "The infectious Baloch dance". 17 March 2019. Archived from the original on 2022-03-21. Retrieved 2023-12-22.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  3. ^ "The Forging of Musical Festivity in Baloch Muscat: From Arabian Sea Empire to Gulf Transurbanism to the Pan-Tropical Imaginary". Retrieved 30 December 2023.
  • Mehran Poor Mandan, The Encyclopedia of Iranian Old Music, Tehran, 2000.


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