Description: The Antara is a single row panpipe tuned to the pentatonic scale. Like the sikus both are "pre-colombian" in origin. But they do differ from each other. This instrument is played solo, or traditionally with percussion or sometimes with other arrangements "winds and percussion" or in recent additions "in stringed ensembles".

Anatomy: The antara (specimen in my collection) and the likes of many others are oftening tuned in pentatonic scale, also the total of pipes or tubes total up to 14-tubes. Has two "bridges" or stripes of bamboo. Scale of the tuning is D-E-G-A-B-D'-E'-G"'-B"-D".

Text Updated: 2008-02-24 Sunday