Most cultures have developed a ‘jaw harp’ – essentially a plucked instrument with a frame, played in the mouth – and Indian classical music’s version is the morsing. But how does it actually work?

Ever since it made its debut on the Carnatic stage, morsing, the tiny wind-percussion instrument, has craned the necks of those sitting in the audience as they tried to decipher the genesis of the ...

To master this tiny instrument - morsing - is not easy. (The instrument is also called Jews’ harp.) But Ghantasala Satyasai, an eminent vidwan, found morsing very interesting. Hailing from Vijayawada, ...

In the late 1970’s when L. Bhimachar entered the portals of Akashavani with hopes of enrolling as a staff artiste the doors weren’t yet open for ‘Morsing artistes.’ Soon after in 1979, the category ...