• Banslec, or flute.
Been or Vina, a sort of sitar, but having two dried hollow pumpkins (Cueurbita melopepo, itrilld.) fixed to the end of it, with five or seven steel strings.
Chukara, a kind of violin.
Daeera, a tambourine, played upon with a stick.
Dhol, a large drum, both sides covered with leather, and played upon with the hands. D'holuk, smaller, and side Cover" with leather.
Doroo, a small' double-hear l .and-drum.
Duff or Duffra, tbq tambour de basque ; tympanum, according to Gentius, Sadi Resar. Polit. p. 303.
A sort of bass tambourine, played upon with a stick. Dunks, a bass kettle-drum, middle size, between the nugara and tukkoray.
Ghugree, one or two hollow rings with pebbles in them, worn on one or both thumbs.
Goonghroo, little bells fastened round the wrists and ankles.
Keenggree has three or four pumpkins, and only two steel strings, generally used by Hindus. Khunjuree, a small tambourine, played upon with the fingers.
Meerdung, a kind of drum which is an accompaniment to the kunchnee ka taefa.
Munjeora or Jhanjh, a kind of small cymbals in the shape of cups, struck against each other, and accompanying most bands.
Murchung, or Jew's-harp.
Muria, a drum like a dhol, covered at both ends with leather, but played upon only on one aide with a stick.
Nugara or Nakfirfi, a kettle-drum.
Pukhawaj, a kind of drum, a timbre].
Qanoon, a species of dulcimer or harp.
Qurna, a straight or curved horn, twelve feet long. Ragmala, a piano.
Eubah, a kind of violin, a rebec.
Saringi, like a fiddle, played upon with a bow. Shuhnaee, a clarionet, a cubit long, and having a leaf mouthpiece, commonly called Soornaee.
Sitars, sometimes it has nine or eleven steel wires, but generally three ; whence its name, Si, three, • and Tara, string or wire.
Sunkh, the thank sell, is the trumpet of the Hindu temples, frequently used by devotees, also as an accompaniment to the tumkee. Sometimes they play trios and quartottos on the thank shells alone.
Sur, a bass or drone to the shuhnaee.
Surod, guitar (or sitar) having catgut or silk strings. Tabla, a couple of drums, played upon at the same time, one with each hand.
Tabul, an enormously large drum, used in the field of battle.
Tal, cymbals used by devotees, and frequently as an accompaniment to the tads..
Tasa or Tasha-murfa, a drum of a semicircular shape, played upon with two sticks, and invariably ac companied by the murfa.
Taus or Mayuri, a modern instrument formed out of the sitar and saringi, derives its name from the figure of a peacock at its base. It is generally used to accompany the female voice.
Tukkoray, kettledrums; one is called zayr, the other bum.
Tumboora, a sitar having catgut strings instead of wire.
Tumkee, a small circular brass plate, played on with a piece of wood, having a knob at the end.
Turri or Turturi, commonly denominated by Euro peans collery horn, consists of three pieces fixed into one another, of a semicircular shape.
Those in use by the Taniil musicians are drums, one of them called malum murathangam or mathaluma; large and small flageolets; the mogo veni; cymbals; and the thoothe, somewhat like a bagpipe—this comprises the entire skin of a sheep or goat, freed of hair, and having all the openings closed, excepting two pipes of reed, one of which is inserted in the neck, and the other at one of the extremities, one to blow with, and the other through which the air issues, producing a low, moaning sound. They sometimes have a clarionet, violin, tambourine, and guitar, but these are in novations of late introduction.
With the Burmese, the tunes Tay-dat, A-poo deik, Lon-gyin, etc., are as familiar as ' God save the Queen,' to an Englishman. The iKayah-than is of modern origin. In their ficknowledged national airs it is difficu4'to get a aefinite rhythm, the music being almost invari a mere succession of recitative. Of the Burmese musical instruments, the chief size and power is the patshaing, a drum har lonicon. It consists of a cc rcular tub - like fro e, about 30 inches high, and 44 feet in This frame is forma of separate wood el staves fancifully carved, and fitting by tenon into a hoop, which keeps them in place. Round th interior of the frame are suspended vertically ,otrie 18 or 20 drums, or tom-toms, graduated in ne, and in size from about 24 inches diameter to 10. In tuning, the tone of each drum is odified as required, by the application of a littl .moist efay with a sweep of the thumb in the centr'd-of the parchment. The whole system then T of harmonicon, on which the perform r, squatted in the middle, plays with the natural ectra of his fingers and palms, and with great dex rity and musical effect.