Subject: Mṛdaṅgam / Subject: Musical instruments--India - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

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Description:: Large drums, from left: mṛdaṅgam: L 22”, diameter (ink i.e. syahi black spot) 6 ½; dia. (plain) 8 ½”. ḍholak: L 17”; diameter 9 ½; waist: 39 ½”. pakhāwaj (pakhavaj): L 23”, diameter (ink i.e. syahi black spot) 5”; dia. (plain) 7”. Ḍamaru: L 7”; diameter 6 ½”.
Date:: November 12, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: View of nine membranophones (avanaddha - a Sanskrit term referring to drums, in general) played with hands, including one mṛdaṅgam (top left), one ḍholak (top center), one ḍholki (below mṛdaṅgam), one tablā pair, dayan and bayan (center right) with kundal woven ring (center left), two nāl (bottom left and center) and copper mizhavu (?) (bottom right). Possibly in the Raja Dinkar Kelkar Museum in Pune.
Date:: 1984
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Catlin-Jairazbhoy, Amy
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts