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Drum.
Technical description: Wooden shell ('lakari'); drum heads (goat skin) bound by leather thongs - plaited ('gajara'); tensioned by leather thongs ('baddhi', made of camel skin) with adjustable wooden blocks ('gittak' or 'gatta'); drum head ('puri') weighted for tuning purposes with semipermanent mixture of coal dust. head diameter 145.
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Circa 1930 - Maker:
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University of Edinburgh - Inventory number:
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North India/India - Hornbostel-Sachs classification:211.222.1-814
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- Hornbostel-Sachs category:211.222.1-814
- Repository:University of Edinburgh
- Measurements:285
- View the original record:https://collections.ed.ac.uk/mimed/record/17976