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Description: | Salka 65/Kamarbandha Ali GOLAGHAT
'Murali' is the name of a variety of wind instruments in North India, usually the transverse flute. In Assam, the murali is used widely featuring in the dance and vocal music of a number of different communities. Three of the six holes are covered by the left hand and three by the right.
Murali, transverse flute made of a single internode of bijuli bamboo (Bambusa pallida). The instrument has six fingerholes. The end of the tube above the mouth hole is stopped with pink coloured cork. A printed label between the mouth hole and fingerholes reads: 'salkla/Kamarbandha Ali/GOLAGHAT'. '65/' is hand-written in ink after the first word, and a small white adhesive label at opposite end, which is also hand written, reads: 'BØ 65/-'. Made in Kamarbandha Ali, Golaghat, Assam.
caption: Frontal view of object no. 2004.575. | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Rights holder: | Horniman Museum and Gardens | Subjects: | 421.121.12 Open side-blown flutes with fingerholes bamboo cork muralis transverse flutes | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-124415 | Go to resource |
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