Duggi

Duggi Instrument

The duggi, dugi or dukkar, is an Indian drum, with a kettle drum shape, played with fingers and palm of the hand. It is a folk drum in Uttar Pradesh  and Punjab.

In shehnai ensembles, a it’s player provided rhythm accompaniment, but nowadays, a tabla player has the role. The it’s part in those ensembles consists of two drums, like a tabla and bayan, but smaller in size. It has neither the resounding quality of the tabla nor the peculiarity that the tabla has of sustaining the frequencies of a note.

It is also performed in baul music of the Bengal/Bangladesh region.