Editing Kanjira (section)

{{Short description|South Indian frame drum}}
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| background            = percussion
| names                 = ganjira
| classification        = [[Frame drum]]
| hornbostel_sachs      = 211.311
| hornbostel_sachs_desc = [[Directly struck membranophone]]
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The '''kanjira''', '''khanjira''', '''khanjiri''' or '''ganjira''', a [[South India]]n [[frame drum]], is an instrument of the [[tambourine]] family. As a folk and [[bhajan]] instrument, it has been  used in the [[Indian subcontinent]] for many centuries.

The '''Kanjira's''' emergence in South Indian Carnatic music, as well as the development of the modern form of the instrument, is credited to Manpoondia Pillai. In the 1880s, Manpoondia Pillai was a temple lantern-bearer who sought to study drumming. He modified the kanjira to a frame drum with a single pair of jingles and brought the instrument to a classical stage.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thehindu.com/features/friday-review/The-sound-challenge/article13999469.ece|title=The sound challenge|first=B.|last=Kolappan|date=14 January 2016|access-date=19 April 2021|website=Thehindu.com}}</ref><ref name="KasturiMadhavan2007">{{cite book|author1=Prema Kasturi|author2=Chithra Madhavan|title=South India heritage: an introduction|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_HwMAQAAMAAJ|year=2007|publisher=East West Books (Madras)|isbn=978-81-88661-64-0|page=593}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nscottrobinson.com/southindiaperc.php |title=World Music and Percussion, Frame Drums, Riq, Tambourines |website=Nscottrobinson.com |access-date=2015-03-24}}</ref>

It is used primarily in concerts of [[Carnatic music]] (South Indian classical music) as a supporting instrument for the ''[[mridangam]]''.