yazh in A Sentence

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    The major stringed instrument described here was the Yazh.

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    In some literary examples the words Yazh and veena are used in juxtaposition and are used in the same context.

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    The peri Yazh might have been a large sized harp with a boat- shaped pattar( an analogue of the ambhana) or resonator closed with leather and having twenty- one stings.

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    The senkotti Yazh had a resonator which, most likely, was covered with a wooden plank and its kotu( comparable to the danda) seems to have been a straight tube instead of a curved one; it had seventeen strings.

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    A Yazh( Possible reconstruc- tion after Tamil Kalaikazhanjiyam) hunter who made a bow out of the hollow branch of a kumizh tree, tied a hempen rope to it and to the accompaniment of this vil Yazh roamed happily singing the kunrinji pann.

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    On the other hand Yazh has also been termed as the veenai, for example the makara Yazh which was also known as the makara veenai, and this lands us back in a hazy situation where we are not in a position to decide on the' Aryan- ness' or otherwise of the ancient Tamil instruments.

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