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Among Gorean musicians, incidentally, czehar players have the most prestige; there was only one in this group, I noted, and he was their leader; next follow the flutists and then the players of the kalika; the players of the drums come next; and the farthest fellow down the list is the man who keeps the bag of miscellaneous instruments, playing them and parceling them out to others as needed.
Lastly it might be mentioned, thinking it is of some interest, musicians on Gor are never enslaved; they may, of course, be exiled, tortured, slain and such; it is said, perhaps truly, that he who makes music must, like the tarn and the Vosk gull, be free."(Nomads of GOR, page 154)
"The three Musicians bent to their instruments, and, in a moment, there were again the sounds of a paga tavern, the sounds of talk, of barbaric music, of pouring paga, the clink of bowl, the rustle of bells on the ankles of slave girls."(Assassin of GOR, page 9)
"The Musicians had now begun to play. I have always enjoyed the melodies of Gor, though they tend on the whole to a certain wild, barbaric quality."
(Assassin of GOR, page 89)
"As at many of the larger markets, there are Musicians near the block, and a girl is given enough time to present herself well."
(Assassin of GOR, page 112)
"The music of the musicians was quite good. I reached to my pouch, to take from it a golden tarn and throw it to them."
(Hunters of GOR, page 46)
"The musicians then again began to play, the sensous, melodious, exciting, wild music of Gor."
(Rogue of GOR, page 190)
"The music of Gor, or much of it, is very melodious and sensuous. Much of it seems made for the display of slaves before free men, but then, I suppose, that is exactly what it is made for."
(Dancer of GOR, page 180)
"He then, for two or three minutes, played soft, full melodious tunes, sensuous, inviting tunes."
(Dancer of GOR, pages 283 - 284)

On the thumb and first finger of both her left and right hand were golden finger cymbals.
(Tribesmen of GOR, page 8)
There was a clear note of the finger cymbals, sharp, delicate, bright, and the slave girl danced before us.
(Tribesmen of GOR, page 8)

The czehar is a long, low, rectangular instrument. It is played, held across the lap. It has eight strings, plucked with a hornpick.
(Kajira of GOR, page 108)
Among Gorean musicians, incidentally, czehar players have the most prestige; there was only one in this group, I noted, and he was their leader; next follow the flutists and then the players of the kalika; the players of the drums come next; and the farthest fellow down the list is the man who keeps the bag of miscellaneous instruments, playing them and parceling them out to others as needed. Lastly it might be mentioned, thinking it is of some interest, musicians on Gor are never enslaved; they may, of course, be exiled, tortured, slain and such; it is said, perhaps truly, that he who makes music must, like the tarn and the Vosk gull, be free.
(Nomads of GOR, page 154)

Red Hunters Drum The drum of the red hunters is large and heavy. It has a handle and is disklike. It requires strength to manage it. It is held in one hand and beaten with a stick held in the other. Its frame is generally of wood and its cover, of hide, usually tabuk hide, is fixed on the frame by sinew. Interestingly the drum is not struck on the head, or hide cover, but on the frame. It has an odd resonance. That drum in one hand of the hunter standing now in the midst of the group was some two and one half feet in diameter." (Beasts of GOR, pages 261-262)
Kaska "The drummer's fingers light on the taut skin of his instrument, the kaska, then adjusting it, then trying it again, then tapping lightly, then more vigorously, with swift, brief rhythms, limbering his wrists, fingers and hands." (Dancer of GOR, page 180)
They were not as yet playing, though one of them was absently tapping a rhythm on a small hand drum, the kaska; two others, with stringed instruments, were tuning them, putting their ears to the instruments.
(Nomads of GOR, page 153)
Tabor A skirl on a flute and a sudden pounding on twin tabors, small, hand drums, called my attention to the square of sand at the side of which sat the musicians.
Tarn Drums
The sound of the great tarn drums reached us, those huge drums whose signals control the complex war formations of Gor's flying cavalries.
(Tarnsman of GOR, page 130)

There was suddenly near us, startling us, another skirl of notes on a flute, the common double flute.
(Magicians of GOR, page 120)

... same as Earth flute and the players always keep them polished; in the inland, it is called 'filimbi'. (Magicians of GOR, page 120)

These rattles were then joined by the fifing of whistles, shrill and high, formed from the wing bones of the taloned Herlit.
(Blood Brothers of GOR, page 40)

..the other was the kalika, a six-stringed instrument; it, like the czehar, is flat-bridged and its strings are adjusted by means of small wooden cranks; on the other hand, it less resembles a low, flat box and suggests affinities to the banjo or guitar, though the sound box is hemispheric and the neck rather long; it, too, of course, like the czehar, is plucked.
(Nomads of GOR, page 153)
"The slave girl sitting on the furs, for the kalika is played either sitting or standing, bent over her instrument, her hair falling over the neck of it, lost in her music, a gentle, slow melody, rather sad. I had heard it sung some two years ago by the bargemen on the Cartius, a tributary of the Bosk, far to the south and west of Ar." (Assassins of GOR, page 207)

Among them was a notched stick, played by sliding a polished tem-wood stick across its surface.
(Nomads of GOR, page 153)

...and several other instruments of a percussion variety, bits of metal on wires, gourds filled with pebbles, slave bells mounted on hand rings, and such.
(Nomads of GOR, page 154)

There was an accompaniment by sistrums.
(Marauders of GOR, page 33)
 ...what was obviously a tambourine; and several other instruments of a percussion variety, bits of metal on wires, gourds filled with pebbles, slave bells mounted on hand rings, and such.
(Nomads of GOR, page 154)

We heard music in the distance, trumpets, drums, and cymbals.
(Captive of GOR, page 209)
Behind him came musicians, with their trumpets, and cymbals and drums.
(Captive of GOR, page 209)
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