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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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  • Hornbostel-Sachs category:211.222.1-814
  • Repository:University of Edinburgh
  • Measurements:285