The Music of Hindostan c6.281

c6.281

India *shahnai*), a kind of oboe with a very loud tone; it was unbearable close, but sounded majestic and rather awe-inspiring at a little distance in the long galleries, as it did blown on the breezes from the top of the Trichinopoly rock. The illustration is of two players at Tanjore; they took it in turns to play chanter and drone. When the second was asked to surcease from droning, the first said he felt ‘like a ship without a rudder’.