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Gue (Lahul And Spiti)
Gue is a village in the Lahaul and Spiti district, Lahul & Spiti district of the state of Himachal Pradesh in India. The village is about 40 km from the Tabo Monastery, at latitude 31.11 and longitude 77.16. This village is claimed by China. The village is 10,000 feet above sea level and 500 km away from the state capital, between the towns of Sumdo and Tabo. Mummy The village is a few kilometers away from the India-China border where there is the mummy of a late medieval Buddhist monasticism, Buddhist monk from Tibet. Nearby villages Nearby villages include * Tabo, Himachal Pradesh, Tabo (Spiti) * Dhankar Village, Dhankar * Kaza, Himachal Pradesh, Kaza (Spiti) * Kibber * Nako, Himachal Pradesh, Nako * Korzok References {{coord, 32.132, 78.567, display=title Villages in Lahaul and Spiti district ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gue Village Monastery
The gue is an extinct type of two-stringed Bowed string instrument, bowed lyre or zither from the Shetland Isles. The instrument was described in 1809 by Arthur Edmondston in ''View of the Ancient and Present State of the Zetland Islands'':"Before violins were introduced, the musicians performed on an instrument called a gue, which appears to have had some similarity to the violin, but had only two strings of horse hair, and was played upon in the same manner as a violoncello."The exact details of the gue are unclear, but it possibly resembled extinct bowed lyres such as the Norwegian ''giga (instrument), giga'', or the extant Swedish and Estonian ''talharpa'' or Finnish ''jouhikko''. However, other Ethnomusicology, ethnomusicologists believe the gue more resembled the Icelandic fiðla, a two-stringed bowed zither. Peter Cooke notes the prevalence of the tautirut bowed zither among the Inuit peoples in areas of Canada influenced by Orkney and Shetland sailors, as possible evidence t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
