Cawanda at the shop of Abdul Karim Ismail Saheb, Miraj (India), 1963
Item Overview
- Title
- Cawanda at the shop of Abdul Karim Ismail Saheb, Miraj (India), 1963
- Creator
- Jairazbhoy, Nazir Ali, 1927-2009
- Date Created
- December 19, 1963
- Date
- 1963-12-19
- Collection
- Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts
Notes
- Description
- Cawandga view from underside, a variable tension monochord whose string (not shown) is attached to a wooden handle, and stored within the wooden “drum.” The string is stretched and loosened by the left hand, while being plucked with the right-hand fingers. Three bronze bells ghanti are attached to a serpentine bronze wire hanging on two bronze rings attached to the wooden resonator, to which a leather carrying strap is attached to the wooden resonator. The bottom of the resonator is tightly covered by a thin leather membrane, through the center of which the end of the string passes, where it is knotted and tied to a small piece of raw cotton padding to prevent the membrane from tearing. A stitched piece of printed textile with a decorative tassel at its corner loosely covers the wooden body. The cawandga was made at the shop of Abdul Karim Ismail Saheb, sitar Makers of Miraj. .
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Dimensions
- 35mm
- Medium
- b&w negative
Keywords
- Genre
-
black-and-white negatives
black-and-white photographs - Location
- Miraj (Sangli, Maharashtra, India)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
-
Chordophones
Cawandga
Musical instruments--India--Miraj
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Ethnomusicology Archive
- Local Identifier
- bake_NAJ_N63_271
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002k341x
- Manifest url
Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Local rights statement
- This file is owned by the UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive and its contents are copyrighted. It cannot be duplicated or used without explicit permission from the UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive: 1630 Schoenberg Music Bldg., Los Angeles, CA 90095-1657, (310) 825-1695, archive@arts.ucla.edu.