The Music of Hindostan c6.132

c6.132

A Kanwar also played the *singāra*, a sort of attenuated kit. It had two strings which the player tuned to C and F♯, and then began to play. I asked if they were right, and he altered them with a smile to C and G and said they were right now. The G was used as drone, so that the tune was below it; each section closed on two G’s. They had also a slow dance with bells fastened below the knee like morris-dancers. (See illustration, preceding page.)