Cawanda at the shop of Abdul Karim Ismail Saheb, Miraj (India), 1963
Item Overview
- Title
- Cawanda at the shop of Abdul Karim Ismail Saheb, Miraj (India), 1963
- Creator
- Jairazbhoy, Nazir Ali, 1927-2009
- Date Created
- December 19, 1963
- Date
- 1963-12-19
- Collection
- Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts
Notes
- Description
- Cawandga, a variable tension monochord whose string is attached to a wooden handle, and stretched and loosened by the left hand, while being plucked with the right-hand fingers. Three bronze bells ghanti are attached to the bronze holder for the strap attached to the wooden cylindrical body, whose bottom is tightly covered by a thin leather membrane, through which the end of the string passes and is tied. Three bronze jingles are attached to the wooden handle. The instrument is said to have originated in the skull of the evil king Kartavirya Arjun, after he was beheaded by Lord Parasurama, son of Goddess Renuka/Yellamma. Devotees play the instrument in honor of Goddess Renuka-Yellamma and Lord Parasurama. The cawandga was made at the shop of Abdul Karim Ismail Saheb, sitar Makers of Miraj.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Dimensions
- 35mm
- Medium
- b&w negative
Keywords
- Genre
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black-and-white negatives
black-and-white photographs - Location
- Miraj (Sangli, Maharashtra, India)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
-
Chordophones
Cawandga
Musical instruments--India--Miraj
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Ethnomusicology Archive
- Local Identifier
- bake_NAJ_N63_270
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002k340d
- Manifest url
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Local rights statement
- This file is owned by the UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive and its contents are copyrighted. It cannot be duplicated or used without explicit permission from the UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive: 1630 Schoenberg Music Bldg., Los Angeles, CA 90095-1657, (310) 825-1695, archive@arts.ucla.edu.