Titti (bagpipe)

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The titti (Telugu: titti,[1] masaka titti, or tutti) is a type of bagpipe played in Andhra Pradesh, India, made from an entire goat-skin.[2] The instrument is described as a goatskin with a double-reed inserted into one leg, and a bamboo blowpipe into the other.[3] The term tittii is used in Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam.[4]

Several paintings possibly depicting bagpipes are shown in Kerala, from the early eighteenth century.[5]

Colonel James Tod (1782–1835 CE) notes that the Yanadis, a forest tribe in Madras, also play the bagpipes,[6][7]

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