A German and his fascination for a Wooden Cow Bell!

Have you ever in your life came across a bell that is completely made of woods? As in the round shape and the middle stroking pendulum completely made of woods. If you are like me, the answer would be NO.
But there’s a story that I came across of these wooden cowbells.
In Eastern India, shepherds used to often leave nearby hilly areas. Hills used to be natural grazing areas. So cows used to instinctively wander over huge areas. And thus to keep track of where a cow has gone, Shepherds used to place a Bell in cow’s neck. This bell used to make noise as and when cow moved.
This is pretty much same all over the world. What isn’t the same, is the Sound! And a German traveler realised this. This guy, as I hear from the storyteller, had arranged a Rajdoot Bike for himself and had traveled all over the India from

Trivandrum in South India to Kathmandu (Nepal) in North, from Rajasthan in West to Assam in east, all in all amounting to 2500+ kms, both from north to south and east to west, only on this Bike! That in itself is something challenging and never heard of, considering the vast terrain, language, clothes, climate change that India holds within it.

Moments after moments traversing through the rarely explored areas of India, once he was resting over a hill. As the few minutes passed, soothing sounds began in the background. It was quite relaxing and peaceful after the journey he had passed of. So much so that after a while, he decided to find the source of the sound. Somewhere within the eye sight, the sound was emerging from the movements of cows.
He went closer and saw that the bell was made of wood. A round wooden bell with a wooden striker, or inviter if I use the Buddhist term.
It was so fascinating to him, that he actually made a transaction with the shepherd, giving him some money and buying the bell for himself! Yup, an Indian cowbell for the memory!
What a wonderful thing to take back home! Perhaps nothing more traditional cam be found than finding the instruments actually used by the locals in their daily work, made indigenously by such small groups of people. And this was at its peak a specialty of a country!
I wish I could too see one such wooden bell in my life! Things have changed since that German traveled India. Now its hard to find that for locals too. But what if I find something more such traditional things if I go to the remotest areas of Indian islands (andaman, nicobar, and lakshwadweep group of inslands)! You never know. :)
Perhaps nothing more traditional cam be found than finding the instruments actually used by the locals in their daily work, made indigenously by such small groups of people.

