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Five people sit on the floor of a weathered courtyard against a cracked plaster wall, studying a traditional instrument course. Several sannyasis in white clothes with orange shawls take notes in small paper notebooks. A man in a white shirt and cream trousers, seated in the centre, leans forward and gestures toward a notebook. Spread on a patterned cloth in the foreground are brass and copper instrument parts, including a kattumurthy-style tied bundle and small pipe-like fittings. A low stone seat and folded white cloth sit behind them.

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