Genre: black-and-white photographs / Location: Miraj (Sangli, Maharashtra, India) / Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Ethnomusicology Archive - 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:: 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:: At the workshop of Vilayat Hussain Brothers, instrument makers, and two gourds (tumba) with neck-piece fitted, the second with decoration leaves added, for 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:: Musicians: Mahadev M. Naik, singer and ektara; Ganpati Pawar, dimdi (small daf), M. Shaluke and with jhāñjh (small hand cymbals). Performers of Hindi bhajan by Kabir Das. The location is the shop of Abdul Karim Ismail Saheb.
Date:: December 19, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Tying the face (tabli) to the gourd to keep it in place as the glue sets in the making of sitar or taṃbūrā at the workshop of Vilayat Hussain Brothers.
Date:: December 19, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Indenting decorative celluloid strips in the making of a sitar or taṃbūrā. This is the first stage of the scrimshaw process in which scratches are made, to be filled with pigment in the next stage. Framed photos of ancestors, relatives, and ustāds hang from the top of the verandah wall at the workshop of Abdul Karim Ismail Saheb and Sons.
Date:: December 19, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Men in turbans, one with a drum, hold reins of bull wearing bells. Crown of men, boys and girls watch. Felix van Lamsweerde can be seen, 2nd from left.
Date:: December 19, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Attaching of decorative celluloid strips in the making of a sitar or taṃbūrā at the workshop of Vilayat Hussain Brothers.
Date:: December 19, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Instrument maker hollowing of the stem (dandi) in making a sitar or taṃbūrā at the workshop of Vilayat Hussain Brothers.
Date:: December 19, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Date:: December 18, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

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