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?

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 ...

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 ...