Grajabpi
Encyclopedia
The grajabpi is a plucked, fret
ted lute of Thailand, used in central Thai classical music. It is made jackfruit
or teak
wood, and it has four strings in two courses
that are plucked with a plectrum. It usually has a long decorative wooden "tail."photo It is one of the oldest Thai classical instruments and has been little used since the 20th century.
Fret
A fret is a raised portion on the neck of a stringed instrument, that extends generally across the full width of the neck. On most modern western instruments, frets are metal strips inserted into the fingerboard...
ted lute of Thailand, used in central Thai classical music. It is made jackfruit
Jackfruit
The jackfruit is a species of tree in the Artocarpus genus of the mulberry family . It is native to parts of Southern and Southeast Asia. It is the national fruit of Bangladesh, . The jackfruit tree is believed to be indigenous to the southwestern rain forests of India...
or teak
Teak
Teak is the common name for the tropical hardwood tree species Tectona grandis and its wood products. Tectona grandis is native to south and southeast Asia, mainly India, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Burma, but is naturalized and cultivated in many countries, including those in Africa and the...
wood, and it has four strings in two courses
Course (music)
A course is a pair or more of adjacent strings tuned to unison or an octave and usually played together as if a single string. It may also refer to a single string normally played on its own on an instrument with other multi-string courses, for example the bass string on a nine string baroque...
that are plucked with a plectrum. It usually has a long decorative wooden "tail."photo It is one of the oldest Thai classical instruments and has been little used since the 20th century.
