Ramsinga is an ancient musical instrument from India.

It is a natural trumpet consisting

of four pipes of very thin metal which fit one within the other. It is mentioned in Emilio
Salgari's works such as The Mystery of the Black Jungle (1895), where it is associated
with the thugee cult.

Sruti box (sruti box or surpeti) is an instrument that traditionally works on a system
of bellows. It is similar to a harmonium and is used to provide a drone in a practice
session or concert of Indian classical music.[1] It is used as an accompaniment to
other instruments and notably the flute. Use of the shruti box has widened with the
cross-cultural influences of world music and new-age music to provide a drone for
many other instruments as well as vocalists.
Gogona (Assamese: ) is a type of jaw harp, a vibrating reed instrument that is
used primarily in the traditional Bihu music in Assam. It is made of a piece
of bamboo/horn that has a bifurcation on one end. The solid end is gripped with the
teeth and the free ends are then struck repeatedly with the fingers to emit the
distinctive sound of the gogona.

The sruti upanga ("drone bagpipe", or bhazana-ruti,[1] druthi,[2] or nosbug[3]) is a

type of bagpipe played in Tamil Nadu, southern India.[4]The instrument was often
used to supply a drone to accompany mukha vina (Tamil oboe) music.[5]
The instrument was described in detail by one Charles Russel Day (1860-1900 CE)
 Venu (Sanskrit: ; veu) is one of the ancient transverse flutes of Indian classical
music.[1] It is an aerophone typically made from bamboo, that is a side blown wind
instrument. It continues to be in use in the South Indian Carnatic music tradition.[2] In
Northern Indian music, a similar flute is called bansuri.[3] In the South, it is also called
by various other names such as pullankuzhal ( ) in Tamil,
in Malayalam, and (kalu) in Kannada. It is known as pillana
grvi ( ) or Vuvu () in Telugu (Andhra Pradesh).

tangmuri, ka tangmuri in the Khasi language, is a double-reed conical-bore wind-

instrument used by the Hynniew Trep people of Meghalaya State in North-East India.
The tangmuri is used by musicians playing for traditional dances, and for other
traditional rituals, such as cremations performed according to the indigenous
religion, Niam Khasi. The tangmuri delivers a very high pitched sound when played by
the musician.
Kuzhal is a traditional double reed wind instrument used in the south Indian state
of Kerala. It is similar in construction to a nagaswaram or a large shehnai, and has a
very shrill and penetrating tone.
Kuzhal is primarily used as an accompaniment for chenda-led ensembles Panchari
Melam and Pandi Melam, where the piper plays the anchor role. However, as prelude
to melams, it is also used to present solo concert (with a couple of accompanying
instruments), in which case it is called Kuzhal Pattu.

Nadaswaram, nagaswaram, nadhaswaram or nathaswaram is a double reed wind instrument.

It is a traditional classical instrument used in Tamilnadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka,
and Kerala.
This instrument is "among the world's loudest non-brass acoustic instruments".[1] It is
a wind instrument similar to the North Indianshehnai but much longer, with
a hardwood body and a large flaring bell made of wood or metal.
 Bulbul tarang (Hindi: ) (Punjabi: ) Shahmukhi) literally "waves of
nightingales", alternately Indian or Punjabi banjo) is a string instrument from Indian and
Pakistani Punjab which evolved from the Japanese taishgoto, which likely arrived in South Asia
in the 1930s.[1]
The instrument employs two sets of strings, one set for drone, and one for melody. The strings run
over a plate or fretboard, while above are keys resembling typewriter keys, which when
depressed fret or shorten the strings to raise their pitch.

Ektara (Hindi: , Bengali: , Punjabi: ; literally "one-string", also

called iktar, ektar, yaktaro, gopichand, gopichant, gopijiantra, tun tuna) is a one-string
instrument most often used in traditional music from Bangladesh, Egypt, India, and Pakistan.
In origin the ektara was a regular string instrument of wandering bards and minstrels from India
and is plucked with one finger. The ektara is a drone lute consisting of a gourd resonator covered
with skin, through which a bamboo neck is inserted