Ütőgardon
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File:Gardon musique.jpg
A person playing the ütőgardon.
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| String instrument | |
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| Other names | gardon |
| Classification | bowed chordophone |
| Hornbostel–Sachs classification | 321.322 |
| Related instruments | |
| cello | |
The ütőgardon, also called a gardon, is a folk musical instrument played primarily in Transylvania. It is similar in appearance to a cello, but it is played percussively like a drum. Instead of being played with a bow, its strings are plucked and beaten with a stick.
Culture and Use
The gardon was primarily played by the Székelys, a Hungarian ethnic group in Transylvania,[1] and the Csángós of the Gyimes region.[2] It can have three or four strings, usually tuned to D and d. Playing with a stick instead of a bow provides a droning accompaniment.[1] Musically there are some similarities between the violin-gardon ensembles of Hungarians and some Roma in Transylvania and the zurna-davul widespread throughout the Balkans, Anatolia, and the Near East. The gardon is regularly, though not exclusively, played by a woman, the wife of the violinist.[3]
See also
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