The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c20.21

c20.21

The kettle drums (*naqqārah*) were made of iron hoops, and they were twice as big as those used by cavalry in Europe (*Seir*, i, 24, note 31). One of the drums used was called *Ḍankah*, a small wooden drum, no doubt identical with ढक्क, Shak. 1129, a bass kettledrum, in size between the *naqqārah* and the *lakora*, or as *Qanoone Islām*, App. p. lv, has it, the bass end of the small kettle-drum. De la Flotte, 211, compares the sound of their trumpets (*trompettes*), ten or twelve feet long, to that of a French cowherd’s goathorn, only louder; and G. Careri iii, 182, speaks of seeing a man walking in front of the camp Provost Marshal (*koṭwāl*), blowing a copper horn 8 “palmes” in length, the sound of which made him laugh, “il ressemble tout à fait à celui que les porchers font en Italie lorsqu’ils veulent rassembler leurs cochons égarés”.