page_title: Ghumot
section_title: Usage
hierarchical_section_title: Ghumot / Usage
caption_attribution_description: Sold at the Mapusa market
context_page_description: The ghumot, gumot or ghumat is a membranophone instrument from Goa, India. Ghumat is a percussion instrument of earthen vessel having both sides open; on the bigger opening a leather of monitor lizard is mounted. Generally ghumat is accompanied by 'shamel', another traditional instrument with wooden drum and goat leather mount. This instrument is still very popular amongst by the East Indian people. In August 2019, Goa declared the ghumot as its heritage instrument.
context_section_description: Ghumat forms an integral part of Goan folk, religious and temple music, both Hindu and Christian. It serves as an accompaniment to the folk songs and to the mando music. But most importantly it plays a vital role in the music played in Goa during the Ganesh festival. It also used in most of the Goan temples during the spring season in an orchestra called as Suvari Vadan.
  Khaprumama Parvatkar was one well known artist of this instrument.
caption: Vendor with a goat-skin replacement for the 'ghumot' at the Mapusa market, in Goa, in 2017.
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