 Let's see if I had more background. Background. Hey, welcome back to our Stupid Directs since you did some Corbin. Huh? You can follow us on Instagram, Twitter for more juicy content, and Facebook for a count of three bells with an eight score. Bang! That's one of our personal YouTube channels in this description below. That was for you, dad. Anyways, today we are reacting to a video, this is traditional gatam, gatam making, gatam, gatam, that's an instrument, right? It's the clay pot hammer. So this is how they make those pots. Gatam is one of the ancient musical instruments from Tamil Nadu. This instrument is made of a mixture of clay, mud, and metals. This is a brief documentary about the making of gatam by a family in Madamadurai, Tamil Nadu, who been in this profession for four generations. The matriarch of the family, the late Mrs. Minakshi, got Sanjip Academy Award for gatam making, for making more than 100 gatams over a period of 45 years. Must take a long time. Probably. Let's check. And three generations of gatam musicians. Once, when was asked by a gatam musician, why do you do this? It is so difficult. Her answer was, my responsibility, if I stop, how will you play gatam? No gatam player will come to my home and leave empty-handed. Her legacy is now carried on by her son and family. Viku Vinayagam, who played with Zakir in Sakthi concert, buys his gatam only from this family. And I remember you guys wanting to know how it was made. Yeah, absolutely. It was super interesting. It really, yeah, because they're, I'm sure it's a particular tune, and they take a beating and don't crack and break. So they've got to be tempered, I'm sure, in some way, which is why there's metal in there. So this, I can't wait. Here we go. And only 100, yeah. It seems like a little, but I'm sure it, it must, it must take a really, really long time. Dethorth. I've always wanted to do that. Clay pottery on a wheel. Oh, you've never done it? Never done it. They do it? Really? Yeah. 5.7. I don't know what it should feel like. Fine, I wish I could be doing that. I would, I love doing work like that. That's like, messy, dirty. Really not enough to do the whole thing, I know. I was hoping for more. There we go. Sir, 40 percent. Only 40 percent come out with the desired tone. That's the signal he's going to say. Everywhere you get it, it doesn't matter. You get the same tone. I was hoping we were going to get more from her. Sorry. Wow. So, see, he chooses this whole process, which probably takes years or days or couple of days, whatever, and you're not even guaranteed that it's going to, one, it could just break in the fire. Right? Once it's done all that, might not be the right tone. Yeah. Also, how long are they tuned good? Because obviously a guitar, if you keep playing it, it's going to get out of tune, right? You probably need to tune it every day, right? Yeah. Every time you play, that's what I see, guitars. Yeah, you regularly, every time you pick up the guitar, you're checking it because it may have gotten out of tune for any number of reasons that can contribute to that. So, how long does it take for it to get out of tune? Because obviously it's clay, and it's not string, which is a much more durable. No, but I bet it has to be kept in certain conditions in terms of weather. Like, I bet you don't want it exposed to extreme heat. Maybe the baking process puts a protective coating on it so that the only thing that would happen would be it could crack. But yeah, like, how long do they last? Like, do you have to, after 20 years, do they maybe lose their tone, or does it get better with age? Maybe. And then you have to get another one, but now I understand why she's only made meaning 100 or in circulation. So, and then how much does a magnificent work of art like that cost? Yeah, can I buy one? Yeah, like, I would imagine these are quite pricey. But he said that he's not in for the business. True. It might not cost a lot. That's true. That's very true. They may not charge a lot for them. And I don't know, like, what's obviously a lot in India is not a lot here. Right. Like, can I buy one? I might. And I don't know how much they are. And I don't, I don't know if these people order. I can't even think of a comparable instrument that I know of, because all of the other instruments I can think of are either covered in some type of a skin for percussive instruments, or they have a string. Or if it's a harder instrument, you blow through a reed or you just blow directly into it. And they're usually made from brass or wood. So I can't think of it. There's a lot of African instruments that are like this. So this is on some site, musician mall. It's out of stock, but it's $155. $55. So that would be, but I don't, and it's probably they're probably even making roughly between 11 and 12,000 rupees. Gotcha. Which for an instrument is not a lot. It's nothing. A guitar. An American guitar for example. Yeah. Like this, my guitar is a Taylor and this guitar is probably, and I say probably because this was gifted to me years ago, this Taylor was probably in the ballpark of 1200 bucks. And that's normal for a good Taylor. It may have been $900. Those are Gibson's, right? You can, yeah, you can get, and it depends on, again, it depends on, I imagine, and they're not in it for the money. So maybe, you know, like when you buy a Taylor compared to a Yamaha, a Taylor is going to be way more expensive than a Yamaha. And your first guitar is almost always going to be like a Yamaha guitar, because you can get a learner introductory guitar for two or $300 American. But if you want to get into the nicer guitars, you're going to be in the 567, 12, 1500, and then the top of the line guitars that aren't like limited editions are signed, we're going to fall into the neighborhood of two, three, four thousand. When you get a guitar that's like a offender signed by Paul McCartney, you're talking ridiculous amounts. And most of those are machine made now. Yeah, most are machine made. They're not not all of them handmade instruments. There are some, obviously, that are handcrafted. Yeah. But this is obviously just a family. And they said that one of the guys we watched who was incredible on the pop, on the Gotham, only buys from this family, from this family. Yeah, that's impressive. It is watching that right there. That was just, that was artistry. Yeah, that was really cool. Well, let us know all the answers, all the questions we have. And if there's any other videos, some of this one, let us know down below.