West Indies. As song lyrics in Tibet usually contained stanzas of 4 lines of 6 syllables each, the lyrics could be easily adapted to almost any melody. Secular Tibetan music has been promoted by organizations like the Dalai Lama's Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts. This organization specialized in the lhamo, an operatic style, before branching out into other styles, including dance music like toeshey and nangma. Nangma is especially popular in the karaoke bars of the urban center of Tibet, Lhasa. Another form of popular music is the classical gar style, which is performed at rituals and ceremonies. Lu are a type of songs that feature glottal vibrations and high pitches. There are also epic bards who sing of Tibet's national hero Gesar. Musical instruments Wind Dungchen (དུང་ཆེན་) or rag-dung (རག་དུང་) - long horn made of copper and/or brass Dung-kar or dung-dkar (དུང་དཀར་, literally "white conch") - conch shell horn Gyaling (རྒྱ་གླིང་) - shawm Kangling (རྐང་གླིང་) or kang-dung (རྐང་དུང་) - trumpet made from a human leg bone, or sometimes wood Lingbu (གླིང་བུ་) - flute flute made from bamboo, or occasionally wood Dung-rus gling-bu - flute made from the leg bone of an eagle or vulture Kha-wang or gugzi - Jew's harp String Dramyin or sgra-snyan (སྒྲ་སྙན་) - long-necked fretless plucked lute with 6 or 7 strings Piwang (པི་ཝང་) - 2-stringed vertical fiddle Rgyud-mang (རྒྱུད་མང, literally "many strings") - hammered dulcimer Percussion Chö nga or lak nga - double-headed drum, which is usually held by a handle in the left hand and struck with a curved stick held in the right hand Damaru (ཌ་མ་རུ་) - small hourglass drum Dhyangro - drum used by Himalayan shamans Dril-bu (དྲིལ་བུ་) - handbell Gyer-kha (གཡེར་ཁ་) - small decorative bell Khar-nga (མཁར་རྔ་) - gong Nga or rnga (རྔ་) - term referring to any drum or ritual percussion instrument Nga chen or rnga-chen (རྔ་ཆེན་) - large double-headed drum, suspended in a frame and played with two sticks Rnga-chung - small double-headed drum Lda man (ལྡ་མན་) - a pair of kettledrums Rölmo (རོལ་མོ་), also called buk chöl, bup chal, or sbub-chal - hemispherical cymbals Silnyen or sil-snyan (སིལ་སྙན་ or སིལ་སྙེན་) - flat cymbals Tingsha or ting-shags (ཏིང་ཤགས་) - small cymbals Mkhar-rnga bcu-pa - set of 10 tuned gongs in a frame Popular and modern Tibetans have a very strong popular-music culture, and are also well represented in Chinese popular culture. Tibetan singers are particularly known for their strong