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# What sizes does a mridangam come in?

 Updated 19 October 2026

 

Wesleyan's collection records two **[mridangam](/en-in/instrument/mridangam)** sizes. The lower-pitched taggu shell is about 61 cm long, with openings of about 17 and 20 cm; the higher-pitched hecchu shell is about 56 cm long, with openings of about 16.5 and 19 cm. A concert mridangam is tuned to the performer's tonic, and one research dataset records instruments at six tonics from B to E.



 

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