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Description: | The loud sound of the kombu horn serves to embellish and to prolong the beat of the drums in the pancavadyam, a Keralan Hindu temple ensemble of drums and cymbals. Since the kombu is played rhythmically in the pancavadyam, musicians in Kerala describe it as 'thala vadyam', a percussion instrument. The kombu also plays in other Keralan instrumental ensembles, the kombu pattu and centa melam. The musician holds the horn with the bell pointing over his right shoulder. The right hand grasps the tube below the mouthpiece, the left hand holds it near the joint of the lower and middle sections. Three tones can be played on the kombu, Sa, Pa, and high Sa - in Western solfège low doh, soh the fifth above, and doh the octave above the lowest note. These are the second, third and fourth harmonics in the harmonic series.
Kombu or baari (large) kombu; kompu. End-blown C-shaped horn. Made of cast bronze in three sections, the proximal end with integral mouthpiece, the distal end with flared bell. The sections have cast tenons and sockets, made airtight with beeswax at the two joints. A metal eye has been cast above the bell from which a carrying string of black nylon string is tied and is looped at the opposite end round one of the three ridges on the tube below the flared mouthpiece. Made in Manapaddy, Peramangalam, Thrissur.
caption: Lateral view from left of object no. 2001.178.1.
caption: General view of object no. 2001.178.1. | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Rights holder: | Horniman Museum and Gardens | Subjects: | bronze beeswax cotton horns 423.121.22 End blown labrosones with curved or folded tubes with mouthpiece metal copper alloy | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-113327 | Go to resource |
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