FAQ · Instruments & artforms

Can you tune a morsing?

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A morsing can be fine-tuned only within narrow limits: beeswax on the tongue tip lowers the pitch, and filing raises it but may damage the instrument. Because each morsing is tuned to the sruti, the tonic of the performance, a player needs one instrument per sruti and chooses the one that matches the soloist. Larger instruments sound lower and smaller ones higher.

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