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Nagasvaram (gender unknown)

original: ? [Hindi?]

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From Hindi नाग (nāga [snake]) + स्वर (svara [tune (according to Devi: sound)]); Southern India; Also a long shawm.


Sources

Deva, B. Chaitanya: Musical instruments of India: their history and development. Calcutta, 1978, p.116.

Dictionaries, &c.

Pathak, R.C.: Bhargava’s standard illustrated dictionary of the Hindi language (Anglo-Hindi ed.). Varanasi, 1991 (2nd printing)