[2] The instrument is described as a goatskin with a double-reed inserted into one leg, and a bamboo blowpipe into the other.
[3] The term tittii is used in Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam.
[4] Several paintings possibly depicting bagpipes are shown in Kerala, from the early eighteenth century.
[5] Colonel James Tod (1782–1835 CE) notes that the Yanadis, a forest tribe in Madras, also play the bagpipes,[6][7] The instrument is often used to provide solely a constant drone.
References note the instrument being used as a drone accompaniment by storytellers and singers,[8][9] as well as for village dance-dramas.