Genre: black-and-white negatives and black-and-white photographs - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Seated on the porch in front of the shop of Abdul Karim Ismail Saheb, musicians from the left: Vasant Yadav, with a dimdi (small frame membranophone); Krishna I. Sangpāl, voice, ektara (two stringed drone lute) and dipri/kartāl (wooden clappers); and M. Shaluke with jhāñjh (small hand cymbals). Performers of Marathi abhang and bhakti git, Hindi bhajan by Kabir Das.
Date:: December 19, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Jairazbhoy, Nazir Ali, 1927-2009
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Portrait of the Jairazbhoy family with Hussein Visram, the Jairazbhoy Wakf office manager. They are on the Jairazbhoy Wakf office grounds, Vir Nariman Road, Colaba, Mumbai, opposite Leopold Café.
Date:: 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Jairazbhoy, Nazir Ali, 1927-2009
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Two images of nagāṙā players at a theater before a tamasha performance: a naraga player (left) and D. M. Bhonsle playing “cangara” (nagāṙā?).” The diary of Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy states “Recorded shehnai party. Not very good.”
Date:: December 16, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: At the workshop of Vilayat Hussain Brothers, instrument makers, and a gourd (tumba) in preparation for making a sitar or taṃbūrā.
Date:: December 19, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: A bānsurī (17 ½” flute), shehnai (21”), and tutari (58”) with a curved horn.
Date:: November 12, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: The Manahar Sangeet Vidyalaya music school was founded by Manahar Barve, a vocalist and multi-instrumentalist musician.
Date:: November 10, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Sarasvatī vīṇā Tanjore. L: 39”. Named for the Goddess of Knowledge and the Arts. View of the bridge kuthirai (“horse”) on face. The frets have not yet been attached to the fingerboard danda.
Date:: November 12, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Krishnarao Kumthekar with Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy playing tablā during a lesson on a balcony. Behind them is a khol.
Date:: October 9, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Bulbultarang, a string instrument with keys, an Indian adaptation of a Japanese Taisho Koto. The floral design on the face is worn with age. There are two bridges for playing and drone strings, tuning pegs, and a plectrum. A metric measuring stick shows the scale.
Date:: October 5, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Magician (Mohammed Ali Jaffar Ali or Sardar Khan) with basket and 2 white live pigeons beside a Neuman reel-to-reel tape recorder and microphone.
Date:: October 18, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

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