Made,played & sold by Rehmat (road-side flute seller).Claims it is suitable for Indian classical music & unrivalled in sweetness.Rehmat are Muslim men. Flute,bamboo,tuned in A;8 stops;L. 46 cm.
Donor:
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Ready, Jr. Fund and Niloufer Hirschmann Ichaporia
Collection place:
India
Verbatim coll. place:
India,Maharashtra,Bombay,; Dadabhoy Naoroji Rd.
Collector:
Niloufer Hirschmann Ichaporia
Collection date:
Summer 1972
Materials:
Bamboo (material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Flutes (aerophones)
Function:
5.4 Secular and Religious Musical Instruments
Accession date:
December 7, 1972
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Loans:
S1977-1978 #19: Near Eastern Studies Department, UC Berkeley (November 29, 1977–December 6, 1977) and S1985-1986 #36: Music Library (UC Berkeley) (May 5, 1986–June 15, 1987)