# Chardha

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The **Chardha** (also **Charda**, **Chardah** or **Hunza Rubab**) is a stringed instrument from [Pakistan](/source/Pakistan) and [Afghanistan](/source/Afghanistan), from and mainly played in the [Hunza valley](/source/Hunza_valley) and [Gilgit-Baltistan](/source/Gilgit-Baltistan) province.[1][2][3][4][5][6] It has 4 or 5 main playing strings made of gut or nylon, and many metal resonance strings.[7]

## References

1. ["ATLAS of Plucked Instruments - Central Asia"](https://atlasofpluckedinstruments.com/central_asia.htm#npakistan). *atlasofpluckedinstruments.com*

1. ["Indus Blues documents musical traditions dying out in Pakistan"](https://www.thethirdpole.net/2019/07/11/indus-blues-documents-musical-traditions-dying-out-in-pakistan/)

1. ["INSTRUMUNDO Instrumentos Musicales: Chardha, Chardah, Hunza Rabab"](https://instrumundo.blogspot.com/2019/04/chardha-chardah-hunza-rabab.html). April 15, 2019.

1. ["Indus Blues | An Indie Meme Presentation"](https://www.indiememe.org/indus-blues). *indiememe*

1. ["An elegy to music"](https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/383387-an-elegy-to-music). *www.thenews.com.pk*

1. ["Salman Rashid: From Timber to Tenor"](https://web.archive.org/web/20201027121242/https://odysseuslahori.blogspot.com/2016/07/SalmanRashid.html). Archived from [the original](https://odysseuslahori.blogspot.com/2016/07/SalmanRashid.html) on 2020-10-27. Retrieved 2020-02-23.

1. ["The Shahnameh Guide To The Lutes Of Central Asia"](https://shahnameh.netlify.app/chardha.htm). *shahnameh.netlify.app*

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