Kamayacha
Kamayacha
is an extremely elegant instrument of the professional singing
community of Mangniars all over Marwar. It has a large circular
belly covered with parchment, a peg system and a finger board. It
has three main strings of gut, besides nine suppletory and four
sympathetic steel strings all passing through a broad bridge. The
long wooden curved bow of horse-tail hair moving on all the strings
is characteristic of this instrument. Used by all singing
communities, specially in Marwar but mainly by those belonging to
the Langas.