BICPC ยท ETH.KASH1.1340

Tsakling

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Description

This instrument was collected in the field by Percy Horace Gordon Powell-Cotton, during his world trip between 1889 and 1891. Often played by shepherds and other travelers, such as "Shamma" (peasant traders from the Sham region in the lower Indus River valley, below Nyemo/Nimmo village), the tsakling is a typical Ladakhi instrument. It is a double duct-flute carved from a single piece of wood with two separate bores/tubes. Each tube has seven fingerholes and one thumb-hole, and the fingering is similar to that of a conventional duct flute, or recorder.

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