Śruti [Sruti, S’ruti (?)] nāda (gender unknown)
original: [श्रुति (स्रुति) नाद ?]
2nd pipe/tube of a double chanter
The left -hand pipe; NB¹: "śruti" translates as "ear, hearing", &c., "nāda" as "sound, music, song", &c.; NB: Pathak English-Hindi contains "Drone" as an entry, offering three translations, one of which is "the base-pipe of a bag pipe [sic]" (Hindi: मसक बाजी की निचली (literally: Masak [bagpipe] bajee [stake] kee [of] nichalee [lower], i.e. lower stake of a bagpipe)); NB²: Not having had access (yet) to a Hindi encyclopaedia (or dictionary) of music, I wonder if a general term for "drone" exists in that language...
Baines, Anthony: Bagpipes [1960]. Oxford, 1973 (revised), p.54 (sruti nada).
ws (linguistics [➺ Dictionaries, &c.])Pathak, R.C.: Bhargava’s standard illustrated dictionary of the Hindi language (Hindi-English ed.). Benares, ? (2, revised), p.965 (श्रुति [śruti]) & 547 (नाद [nāda]).
Pathak, R.C.: Bhargava’s standard illustrated dictionary of the Hindi language (Anglo-Hindi ed.). Varanasi, 1991 (2nd printing), p.248.