Mhadalem ( Konkani: म्हादळें) is a Goan percussion instrument. It is a baked clay cylinder covered with

monitor lizard Monitor lizards are lizards in the genus ''Varanus,'' the only extant genus in the family Varanidae. They are native to Africa, Asia, and Oceania, and one species is also found in the Americas as an invasive species. About 80 species are recogn ...

skin at both ends. The mhadalem is in danger of dying out and being lost as its use is declining. It has to some extent been replaced by the pakhavaj. Since the ''gar'' or monitor lizard whose skin is used as the membrane of the drum is endangered and cannot be hunted, goat skin is sometimes used instead as the membrane, as is happening with the

ghumot The ghumot (East Indians: घुमट or ಘುಮೋಟ), gumot or ghumat is a membranophone instrument from oa India. ''Ghumat'' is a percussion instrument of earthen vessel having both sides open; on the bigger opening a leather (drum membra ...

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