The Music and Musical Instruments of Southern India and the Deccan c11.235

c11.235

The Khanjeri, or common tambourine, shown in the plate, consists of a piece of vellum or skin stretched upon a wooden hoop, 8 or 9 inches in diameter and about 3 or 4 inches deep, bored out of the solid. In the hoop are placed three or four slits containing pieces of metal strung together, which clash when the instrument is shaken. The lower edge of the hoop is sometimes bound with silver, chased with mythological devices, and the hoop itself is often carved in the same way.