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?

V. Sai Subramaniam is the first morsing exponent to receive the Kalki Krishnamurthy Award in the 25 years of its inception. Sai grew up seeing his father, a self-taught artiste, play the morsing, an ...

Female percussionists are so few that their gender alone makes them the cynosure of attention. Bengaluru-based Bhagyalakshmi M. Krishna, however, has gone beyond that, earning respect for her immense ...

Once celebrated Carnatic instruments such as the morsing and the gethu vadyam are in need of a resurrection today The concert was nearly six hours long, with the ‘thani avarthanam’ itself lasting for ...