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Description: | Śahnāī, conical oboe. The wooden body, conical both inside and out, has seven finger holes which are large and blackened around the insides, suggesting they have been burned out. The holes form a roughly straight line, but this is not parallel with the plane of the body and veers to the player's left at the distal end. The top end of the body is covered with a conical metal ferrule 20mm long. The reed staple is wound with a substantial amount of blue and white thread. The white thread has a wooden needle 71 mm long tied to the end. The quadruple reed is approx 15 mm wide, one side is broken and is very loose. The bell is of a yellow metal coated with a white metal. It is shaped into bands at the bottom of the body before flaring widely. | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Subjects: | oboes Puruliya Chhau Ramayana wood metal sahnais vegetable fibre resin copper alloy | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-6327 |
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