The ghumat is an ancient percussion instrument.Ghumat is the term gamut was adopted from the field of music, where it means the set of pitches of which musical melodies. It is one of the most ancient percussion instrument in existence. It is an earthen pot having two mouths out of which one is big and the other is narrow. The bigger is mouth is covered with monitor lizard- skin(varanusspp) and fixed with tree-gum and cotton string. The Ghumat is widely used by both the Hindus and the Christians during the festivals such as Shigmo, Ganeshchaturthi, Zagor, Zatra, Mando-Dhulpod etc.