Subject: Chordophones / Genre: black-and-white photographs and black-and-white negatives - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

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:: One pair of kartāl wooden shakers with metal disks, meant to be held in one hand. A small rāmsāgar longneck lute with gourd resonator, and large rāmsāgar.
Date:: December 11, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Ravanhatta (17”) (rajasthani bowed lute, with bow, bells attached) and Esrāj (38.5”) (Punjabi/Sikh bowed lute) with a bow.
Date:: December 11, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Later purchased by Felix van Lamsweerde; housed in the Tropical Museum, Amsterdam.
Date:: December 11, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Three sāraṅgī bowed lutes (40”, 28” & 25”), with many sympathetic strings. Two bows.
Date:: December 11, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Date:: November 12, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: A narad vīṇā (right) length 31”, with 2 tuning pegs; an Irani sitar, length 32”, with 3 tuning pegs for playing strings and 8 pegs for sympathetic strings.
Date:: November 12, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: An ordinary design dilrubā, L 35 ½". Old design dilruba, gold painted, L 39”. With bows.
Date:: November 12, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Abdul Karim Ismail Saheb cutting indentations into decorative celluloid strips in the making of a sitar or taṃbūrā. This is the first stage of the scrimshaw process in which scratches are made in the decorative strips, to be filled with pigment in the next stage. The location is the verandah of the workshop of Abdul Karim Ismail Saheb.
Date:: December 19, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Abdul Karim Ismail Sahib applying paint on the indented celluloid strip in the making of a sitar or taṃbūrā. This is the second stage of the scrimshaw process in which scratches are filled with pigment. Black coal dust is used for black color. The location is the verandah of the workshop of Abdul Karim Ismail Saheb.
Date:: December 19, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

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