Subject: Chordophones / Genre: black-and-white negatives / Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Ethnomusicology Archive - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Sodi burra, a 1-string stick zither with a resonator, a fortune telling instrument. The danda (neck) is of bamboo, the tuning peg is of wood, the string is attached to a nail, and the resonator is of dried pumpkin gourd. Instrument of the Yerukala (Parigamuggula Erukula) people (?). Possession of the Tribal Cultural Research and Training Institute.
Date:: December 21, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Bulbultarang, a string instrument with keys, an Indian adaptation of a Japanese Taisho Koto. The floral design on the face is worn with age. There are two bridges for playing and drone strings, tuning pegs, and a plectrum. A metric measuring stick shows the scale.
Date:: October 5, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Gogonjedi (bowed lute), and dagguḍu (clay kettle drum). Instruments of Savārā tribe (Parvatipuram tāluk and Pālākoṇḍā Srikakulam District). Possession of the Tribal Cultural Research and Training Institute,
Date:: December 21, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Kekrī (bowed lute) and kujja (bow with bells), instruments of Rāj Gond people in Adilabad. Possession of Tribal Cultural Research and Training Institute.
Date:: December 21, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Kekrī (bowed lute) and kujja (bow with bells), instruments of Rāj Gond people in Adilabad. Possession of Tribal Cultural Research and Training Institute.
Date:: December 21, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Gopī yantra in the possession of L. N. Garg.
Date:: October 8, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Sarasvatī vīṇā Tanjore. L 52”. Named for Saraswati, the Goddess of Knowledge and the Arts. It is carved from a single piece of wood. It has twenty-one bronze fret bars (mettu) attached to the fingerboard (danda) in a beeswax mounting. Five strings are attached. It is highly decorated with white inlays. It does not appear to have a sound hole (nada randhra) in the soundboard. An extra resonator (sarrokai) is attached beneath the face of the dragon (yali).
Date:: November 12, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Sarasvatī vīṇā Tanjore. L: 52. Named for Saraswati, the Goddess of Knowledge and the Arts. Bronze frets (mettu) are attached in a beeswax mounting. Five strings are attached. It is highly decorated with white inlays. It does not appear to have a sound hole (nada randhra).
Date:: November 12, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Mayūrī vīṇā. L 76", H: 49”. Harp with tube resonator. It is named for the peacock (mayur) and peacock feathers are attached to the neck and bow. The strings are perpendicular to the sounding board. Two tumba resonators of gourd or wood are attached to the tube resonator.
Date:: November 12, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Sarasvatī vīṇā Tanjore. L: 39”. Named for the Goddess of Knowledge and the Arts. View of the bridge kuthirai (“horse”) on face. The frets have not yet been attached to the fingerboard danda.
Date:: November 12, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

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