Popular Folk Musical Instruments
Gogona is the vibrating bamboo reed instrument. Young boys in a circle and the prettiest girl dancing in the centre to the tunes of Bihu geet are a common sight during the month of Rongali Bihu. Females, mostly seen playing Lahori Gogona is a musical instrument carved out of the bamboo stick.
Gogona (Lahori Gogona). In the beginning, as females start dancing to the rhythms of Dhol and Pepa, one can see them donning Gogona as a hairpin. The Gogona is a type of jaw harp, a vibrating reed instrument that is used primarily in the traditional Bihu music in Assam. It is made of a piece of bamboo that has a bifurcation on one end. The solid end is gripped with the teeth and the free ends are then struck repeatedly with the fingers to emit the distinctive sound of Gogona.
“Once an elderly woman so fond of toad strange sound that she realizes that similar sound can be created by bamboo as she once heard it as a piece of thin bamboo flicked in the air as she was pressing it against her feet to cut it for some household purpose in her kitchen”
__Dijen Gogoi, said as he was explaining the origin of Gogona.
The steps involved in the preparation of Gogona:
