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?

V. Sai Subramaniam is the first morsing exponent to receive the Kalki Krishnamurthy Award in the 25 years of its inception. Sai grew up seeing his father, a self-taught artiste, play the morsing, an ...

To master this tiny instrument - morsing - is not easy. (The instrument is also called Jews’ harp.) But Ghantasala Satyasai, an eminent vidwan, found morsing very interesting. Hailing from Vijayawada, ...

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 ...