How old is the morsing?

The jaw-harp family to which the morsing belongs is found across Eurasia, South and Southeast Asia, Indonesia and Melanesia, and sources disagree on whether it had one origin or several. Grinnell reports that the morsing spread south into the subcontinent from the northwest. Sruti says it entered Carnatic concerts possibly in the early 1900s, and the V&A holds an iron jaw harp collected in British India by 1879.