jhyali

{{Short description|Type of folk percussion instrument}}

File:Jhyali झ्याली cymbals.jpg

File:PancheBaaja.jpg instruments: dholak (drums), tyamko (small kettledrums, leaning on dholak drums), narsiha (a long, S-shaped trumpet), Karnal (a wide-mouthed, straight trumpet), shehnai (a folk oboe, right of karnal), damaha (large kettledrum), and jhyali (cymbals).]]

Jhyali ({{Langx|ne|झ्याली}}) is a traditional folk percussion instrument from Nepal. They are thinly walled, consist of a pair of round, metal plates, resembling cymbals,{{cite book|author=Carol Tingey|title=Auspicious music in a changing society: the Dāmai musicians of Nepal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wn0HAQAAMAAJ|accessdate=24 March 2012|date=December 1994|publisher=Heritage Publishers|isbn=978-81-7026-193-3}} and are used in both folk and classical music in Nepal.

Unlike most percussion instruments around the world, the Jhyali is played by rubbing the plates with the right hand rising and the left hand descending at the time when they clash.http://sureshparajuli.com/music.html {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131209005909/http://sureshparajuli.com/music.html |date=2013-12-09 }} " Jhayalis are played by friction, with the right hand rising and the left hand descending at the time when they clash."

These percussion instruments are made by a Nepali alloy that is called pancha dhatu, which means five metals. The alloy consists of brass, copper, silver, zinc and gold, and are usually made by blacksmiths.{{cite web |url=http://www.spinybabbler.org/traditional_arts/music/instruments.php |title=Damai Musical Instruments |accessdate=2010-05-13 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090727102937/http://www.spinybabbler.org/traditional_arts/music/instruments.php |archivedate=2009-07-27 }} "Damai Musical Instruments"