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Goa’s heritage musical instrument
February 21 , 2019
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- Goa Art and Culture Minister announced that the government will declare Ghumot as state's heritage instrument soon.
- Ghumot is an indigenous earthen drum.
- Ghumot is a percussion instrument widely played during Ganesh Chaturthi festival.
- Forest Department had banned the instrument due to use of skin of a monitor lizard which is a highly endangered wildlife species listed in schedule I of Wildlife (Protection) Act 1972.
- In Andhra Pradesh, this drum is known as gummeta, and it is played in the storytelling folk tradition.
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