The metal tongue, also called the trigger, is bent at the free end in a plane perpendicular to the circular ring so that it can be struck and made to vibrate.

Though its exact origin in the Indian subcontinent is not well documented, with most ancient accounts being derived from folk tales secondary source.

In Bengali and Assamese folk music it is sometimes played with a Rabindrasangeet, while in South India, it features in Carnatic concerts and percussion ensembles.

Burman, and has resurfaced in the twentieth century, with street performers like Varun Zinje playing it in a renewed style.

By constricting the space in the mouth the nostrils can produce sounds in different phases, similar to phasers in electronic music.

[citation needed] The Morchang exists, in nearly the same form and design all over the world, and is called by different names (estimated to be around 900) in different languages.

For example: Morchang / morsing (India), Kou-Xian (China), Vargan (Russia), Munnharpe (Norway), Zanboorak (Iran), Maultrommel (Germany), Guimbarde (France), Marranzano (Italy), Doromb (Hungary), Dambrelis (Lithuania) and Drymba (Ukraine).

The OED says that, "More or less satisfactory reasons may be conjectured: e.g. that the instrument was actually made, sold, or imported to England by Jews, or purported to be so; or that it was attributed to them, as a good commercial name, suggesting the trumps and harps mentioned in the Bible.

Current day players include Sundar N, Minjur M Yagnaraman, Bejjanki V Ravi Kiran, Ortal Pelleg, Valentinas, Viaceslavas,[3] the Barmer Boys, T S Nandakumar and a number of Rajasthani folk music players from the traditional entertainer tribe of Laggas.

[5] Morsingists from earlier eras include Abraham Lincoln,[dubious – discuss] the Russian Tsar Peter the Great [dubious – discuss] and Mannargudi Natesa Pillai, Hariharasharma (father of Vikku Vinayagaram), Pudukkottai Mahadevan, and Kalaimamani A S Krishnan, Mysore M Gururaj, Bharadwaj R Sathavalli from South India.