opened one of the bask ets. When he began to play a tune, we had our first g limpse of the sna e. It rose ou t of the bask et and began to follow the movements of the pipe. We were very much surprised when the snak e charmer suddenly began to play jazz tunes and modern pop so ngs. The sna e, however, continued to 'dance' slowly. It obviously could n ot tell the d ifference between Indian musi