Khol

Khol (clay-ey), drum of India, made of clay, in form of 2 truncated cones joined at their largest part, having heads of different diams. held by leather thongs in zigzag lacings, with tension wedges. Such an instr. is already depicted on the stupa of Borobudur in Java, dating from ca. 800. Played with bare hands. Cf. mridanga (170). Sachs, Curt. The History of Musical Instruments. New York, 1940.