Titti: India musical instrument
The titti is a kind of bagpipe that is played in the Andhra Pradesh, India. The musical instrument is produced from an entire goat-skin. T...
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The titti is a kind of bagpipe that
is played in the Andhra Pradesh, India. The musical instrument is produced from
an entire goat-skin. The musical instrument is described as a goatskin with a
double reed put into one leg and a bamboo into the other leg of the instrument.
The name titti is also used in Telugu, Kannarese and Malayalam.
source of picture: 4to40.com
Many paintings perhaps portraying the
musical instrument are shown in Kerala from the earlier part of the 18th
century.
Colonel James Tod notes that the
Yanadis also performed the musical instrument.
The musical instrument is normally
used to provide solely a constant drone. References note that the musical
instrument being used as a drone accompaniment by the singers and story tellers
and for the village dances and dramas.