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 ...

With the ‘2014 National Chowdiah Award’ going to morsing maestro L. Bhimachar, the wider picture of the art form, a largely neglected one today, has come into focus. The 1950s saw the burgeoning of ...