During a weekend intensive at Adeline Yoga in Berkeley last May,
our teacher Heather Haxo-Phillips was taking us through some arm
asanas and ended up at gomukhasana, also known as the cow-face
pose (photos and background at Yoga Journal and Wikipedia).
Heather mentioned that there is a musical instrument that had a
similar name — gomoku, or something like that — but didn't know
what it looked like. For some reason, I needed to find out more
about this mysterious instrument, and ideally find a photo or
two. |The Gomukh glacier (Wikimedia Commons)| My next
destination was the Berkeley Public Library, where I stumped the
reference librarian in the art and music department -- as well
as the library's paper and electronic collections -- with my
questions. The last physical place I searched was the UC
Berkeley Music Library, where I found a few books on the musical
instruments of India that referenced the instrument in text, but
none of which had a straightforward photo of the instrument with
a caption. |Conch shel