2-981-820 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

A strolling minstrel at Madras playing the tingadee, 1876. Indian musician '...of the Dher caste...playing on an instrument called the tingadee, which is composed of three gourds, with a rod bearing a set of keys across their mouths, and two thin wires stretched over the keys. It is played by striking the wires lightly with the fore finger and little finger of the right hand. The tone is soft and pleasant. For this Illustration we are indebted to Captain Frank James, of the Bombay Staff Corps'. From "Illustrated London News", 1876.