Bāya
Alternate name(s)
- Bāmyā
- Bayan
Date1900-1925 ca.
Place MadeIndia, Asia
Serial No.none
SignednoneMarkingsnone
DescriptionCopper, bowl-shaped body with an animal skin head attached with cord lacing. Notes on the bayan are created by using differing pressure and placement of the hand on its head. The bayan is roughly an octave lower in pitch than the dayan. Played as a set with NMM 1188.
DimensionsShell height: 200 mm
Diameter: 230 mm
ProvenancePreviously owned by Reverend Emmons E. White, Manamadurai, India. By 1947, likely sold to Arne B. Larson, Brookings, South Dakota.
Published ReferencesThomas E. Cross, Instruments of Burma, India, Nepal, Thailand, and Tibet, Shrine to Music Catalog Vol. II (1982), p. 5.
Thomas E. Cross, Instruments of Burma, India, Nepal, Thailand, and Tibet in the Collections of the Shrine to Music Museum, MM Thesis, University of South Dakota, 1983, p. 10, plate II.
André P. Larson, The National Music Museum: A Pictorial Souvenir (Vermillion: National Music Museum, 1988), p. 29.
Sarah E. Smith, “Percussion Instruments in America’s Shrine to Music Museum,” Percussive Notes Vol. 37, No. 1 (February 1999), pp. 6-10.
Credit LineArne B. Larson Collection, 1979
Object number01189
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