Om Periyaswamy with Nāiyāndī Mēḷam musicians at TamilNadu Hotel, Madurai (India), 1984

Item Overview

Title

Om Periyaswamy with Nāiyāndī Mēḷam musicians at TamilNadu Hotel, Madurai (India), 1984

Alternative title

Event 22: Om Periyaswamy ensemble rehearsal - Madurai

Creator

Jairazbhoy, Nazir Ali, 1927-2009
Catlin-Jairazbhoy, Amy

Photographer

Catlin-Jairazbhoy, Amy

Date Created

March 14, 1984

Date

1984-03-14

Collection

Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Notes

Description

Arunachalam Pillai, a hereditary musician, plays a nāgasvaram quadruple-reed aerophone artist (4th from left); Sankarayya Pillai, a nāgasvaram soloist, (center) plays an ottu drone nāgasvaram. Om Periyaswamy (2nd from left); Kalidasa (in profile) plays a pambai drum pair (3rd from left); Venkatesan plays a pambai double-headed membranophone pair with two slightly curving sticks (7th from left); Cuppiramaniyan with hand talām cymbals, in a dark blue shirt and lunghi (6th from left); Mukkasāmi watches, holding a sattakulai (cattak kuḻāy) multiple-reed aerophone (8th from left); and other musicians watch. The jeep of the Archives and Research Center for Ethnomusicology stands behind the group.

Related Records

Bake Restudy Notes for the 1984 Bake Restudy Excursion in India
Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy Field Diary, India, 1984
Data Sheets for the 1984 Bake Restudy Excursion in India

References

Ref: Ethnomusicology Archive, UCLA (coll. 198609_NA84): Bake Restudy Notes, p. 28, Jairazbhoy Diary, p. 61, Data Sheets, p. 105-108

Physical Description

Extent

1 slide

Medium

35 mm slide

Keywords

Genre

slides (photographs)

Names

Venkatesan
Hotel TamilNadu (Madurai, India)
Pillai, Arunachalam
Kalidasa
Mukkasāmi
Periyaswamy, Om
Pillai, Sankarayya
Cuppiramaniyan

Location

Madurai (Tamil Nadu, India)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Tāḷam
Aerophones
Naiyandi Mēḷam
Sattakulai
Pambai
Idiophones
Pambia
Nāgasvaram
Membranophones
Tavil