Goan musical instruments

My third blog will tell you about the next instrument that is:-

Shamel

This instrument is one of the known instrument in Goan music. This instrument is made up of trees trunk and also of the middle part of the tree. The upper part of the instrument is having a hole of about 1feet.Some Shamels are of different swaras such as kali 1, kali 2 etc. The skin of Goat is tied on the wooden structure to produce different sounds. The sticks which are used to play shamel is made up of tree known as BETH(बेथ ), usually we say Bethachi badi(बेताची बडी ).  Now a days people use fibre instead of Goats skin and plastic sticks instead of beth. Shamel is basically used in the Arti playing, folk dances, folk music etc. In Goan arti, shamel is the main instrument in all among the three instruments.