Indian Musical Instruments

24 brass frets, 4 melody & 3 tala strings chordophone.

Primary Carnatic two-headed barrel drum with acoustic soru/karanai.

Manamadurai baked clay pot with iron filings and neck resonance.

Agile frame drum with metal jingles and pitch-bending left hand.

Buccal cavity modulated jaw harp overtone percussion.

8-hole bamboo transverse flute with vocal microtonal gamakas.

Fretless string melodic backbone with Sa-Pa-Sa-Pa tuning.

Double-reed temple wind instrument with circular breathing.

Heavy temple barrel drum with hardened rice-paste finger thimbles.

4-string primordial drone lute with buzzing harmonic jiva thread.

21-string fretless slide veena (Gottuvadhyam) with cylindrical slide.

Ancient Dhrupad tubular zither with twin gourd resonators.

Fretless bowed string instrument closest to human vocal timbre.

Plucked long-neck lute with curved movable frets and tarab strings.

Fretless lute with polished metal fingerboard and goat-skin belly.

Dayan and Bayan twin classical hand percussion drums.

Free-reed keyboard instrument with hand-pumped bellows.

Heavy bronze hand cymbals for Harikatha and steady laya.

Tuned porcelain water bowls struck with wooden beaters.

Two-headed folk and devotional rhythm barrel drum.

Modern percussion set in contemporary Carnatic crossover.

Shaker percussion in world music rhythm ensembles.