Chiwang

{{Short description|Type of fiddle played in Bhutan}} [[File:Blind musician in Lhasa Band.jpg|thumb|Acho Namgyal playing piwang in 1937]] The '''''chiwang''''' (Dzongkha: སྤྱི་དབང་; Wylie: ''spyi-dbang'')<ref name=Kinga>{{cite journal|title=The Attributes and Values of Folk and Popular Songs |journal=Journal of Bhutan Studies |volume=3 |issue=1 |first=Sonam |last=Kinga |accessdate=2011-10-30 |url=http://www.thlib.org/static/reprints/jbs/JBS_03_01_05.pdf |format=PDF |year=2003 |pages=132–170}}</ref> is a type of fiddle played in Bhutan.<ref>{{cite book|title=History of Bhutan Based on Buddhism |first=C. T |last=Dorji |publisher=Sangay Xam; Prominent Publishers |year=1994 |isbn=81-86239-01-4 |page=15 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yA9uAAAAMAAJ |accessdate=2011-10-30}}</ref> The ''chiwang'', the ''lingm'' (flute), and the ''dramyen'' (lute) comprise the basic instrumental inventory for traditional Bhutanese folk music.<ref name=Kinga/>

Although the ''chiwang'' is considered typically Bhutanese, it is a variety of the ''piwang'', a Tibetan two-stringed fiddle. It is heavily associated with ''boedra'', one of two dominant genres of Bhutanese folk music, in which it symbolizes a horse.<ref name=Greenwood>{{cite book|title=The Greenwood Encyclopedia of World Folklore and Folklife: Southeast Asia and India, Central and East Asia, Middle East |volume=2 |first=William M. |last=Clements |publisher=Greenwood Press |year=2006 |isbn=0-313-32849-8 |pages=106–110 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZvrWAAAAMAAJ |accessdate=2011-10-16}}</ref>

==See also== *Boedra *Music of Bhutan

==References== {{reflist}} Category:Bhutanese musical instruments Category:String instruments Category:Bowed instruments