Morsing

The Morsing is a South Indian Jew's harp and one of the Zupfidiophonen. It is used in the South Indian classical music as a rhythm instrument. Their sound is metallic rasping and complements well a muffled drum sound. She often follows like a shadow the rhythm patterns of the mridangam, but in percussion ensembles she wears also solo roles. In addition to the mridangam, the ghatam and kanjira it is often played as a fourth rhythm instrument in Carnatic music. Often the Morsing is the Konnakol used in a kind of syllabic language.

The instrument has a compact frame made ​​of steel or brass with an attached thereto, free-floating steel tongue that protrudes far. The frame is hand shell of the left hand held and applied to the slightly parted teeth. With the middle finger of the right hand of the player plucks the coil, which produces sound by means of modulation of the oral cavity and respiratory.

In northern India, there are deeper sounding Jew's harps, called Morchang. Other spellings are morsang or murcang, in the West simply cang.

In addition, ( made ​​of the same material ) Jew's harp made ​​of bamboo in the north are also idioglotte known: as gagana and under other names in Assam and as ghangli the people of Bhil. The gagana has at the end of a tongue hanging string, to which is plucked. Similarly, the ghoraliyan works in Rajasthan.