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Śruti-upāṅga (often spelt Sruti ~, sometimes S’ruti ~) (gender unknown)

original: ? (Tamil) (Hindi: श्रुति [उपान्ग ?])

drone instrument [?]

Transliteration in Sachs (Handbuch, and Indien & Indonesien); Southern India (According to Wikipedia "played in Tamil Nadu"); NB¹: According to Baines it is a professional, not a pastoral instrument; NB²: According to Day, one of the 2 Southern Indian names of the Northern Indian Moshuq (➺ Bhazana śruti), and Edgerly mentions it as a synonym of Nosbug; NB³: The term "upāṅga" seems to be used to indicate "any" musical instrument.


Sources

Baines, Anthony: Bagpipes [1960]. Oxford, 1973 (revised), p.30 (Sruti upanga).

Sachs, Curt: Die Musikinstrumente Indiens und Indonesiens: zugleich eine Einführung in die Instrumentenkunde [1914]. Berlin, 1923 (2), p.160.

Sachs, Curt: Handbuch der Musikinstrumentenkunde [1920]. Leipzig, 1930 (2), p.350.

Day, C.R. [Charles Russell]: The music and musical instruments of southern India and the Deccan [London, 1891]. Reprinted with new introduction. Delhi, 1977 [3], p.[151] (Moshuq [text to plate XVI]: S’ruti-upanga), ➺ plate 16* [sic].

Rosenthal, Ethel: The story of Indian music and its instruments: a study of the present & a record of the past. Together with Sir William Jones’ celebrated treatise in full, with 19 plates chiefly of instruments, music illustrations and a map [London, 1928]. New Delhi, 1970 [facsimile], p.56 (śruti upánga).

Collinson, Francis: The bagpipe: the history of a musical instrument. London, 1975, p.78.

MGG: Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart (Kassel, Bärenreiter, 1949–1968, supplemented 1973-1986) / 2nd ed. 1994-2007, supplemented 2008 (Śruti upaṅga).

Flood, Wm. H. [William Henry] Grattan: The story of the bagpipe. London, 1911, p.10 (S’ruti).

Edgerly, Beatrice: From the hunter's bow: The history and romance of musical instruments. New York, 1942, p.169 (Sruti-upanga).

Podnos, Theodor H.: Bagpipes and tunings. Detroit, 1974, p.24 (»Baines).

Colucciello, Aldo: E se Kṛṣṇa suonasse la zampogna… In: Utriculus VII;4 (28), ottobre/dicembre 1998, p.30 (S’ruti~upanga (footnote 6: Sruti-upanga); »Day).

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Pathak, R.C.: Bhargava’s standard illustrated dictionary of the Hindi language (Hindi-English ed.). Benares, ? (2, revised), p.965 (śruti: ear, hearing, &c.).