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Grandma's Stories
He could play anything on the yazh. The one hymn he most wanted to play had a tune his instrument could not reach.
Thirunilakanta was a musician, and his instrument was the yazh.
The yazh is an old Tamil harp. It has strings across a curved frame, and almost nobody plays one now, and the way it was tuned has been lost.
The rest of this story, read aloud, and a new one every day.