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Sunday, January 4, 2009

Shehnai

...the plaintive, festive music of the shehnai had now ceased... (p. 15)

Shehnai is a woodwind instrument similar to an oboe, widely used in Northern India for wedding ceremonies and processions. The instrument employs two sets of double reeds.

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