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According to musicologist P. Sambamurthy, "The current form of the Saraswati veena with 24 fixed frets evolved in Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, during the reign of Raghunatha Nayak and it is for this reason sometimes called the Tanjore veena or the Raghunatha veena. The Saraswati veena contains 4 strings. It is said Govinda Dikshita father of ...
The Yali is often found on the neck of a modern Saraswati veena. ... Asian art - Yali, Sri Lanka This page was last edited on 31 January 2025, at 10:13 (UTC ...
The many regional designs have different names such as the Rudra veena, the Saraswati veena, the Vichitra veena and others. [4] [5] The North Indian rudra veena, used in Hindustani classical music, is a stick zither. [1]
Veena is a type of Chordophone musical instrument, which has been mentioned in the Vedas. [4] Thanjavur veena is a type of Saraswati Veena, about 4 ft (1.2 m) long. It consists of a rounded wooden resonator and a thick, long neck, similar to a lute. The end of the neck is carved into intricate patterns and a tuning box attached to the underside ...
Nirmala Rajasekar is a Carnatic Saraswati veena player, composer, vocalist, and educator. [1] One of the world's premier veena players, [2] Rajasekar has performed at Carnegie Hall, [3] the United Nations, [4] the Madras Music Academy, Narada Gana Sabha, [4] [5] Sawai Gandharva Festival, [3] and the Konya International Mystic Music Festival. [4]
In 1954, at the age of 17, Rugmini won the President's Award from the first President of India, Rajendra Prasad, at the first All India Radio (AIR) Competition for Veena [2] at 18 years of age. She served as Professor and Head of the Department of Music in the Swathi Thirunal College of Music in Thiruvananthapuram , Kerala from 1957 to 1986.
Jayanthi Kumaresh is an Indian Veena musician. [1] [2] [3] Jayanthi comes from a lineage of musicians who have been practising Carnatic music for six generations and started playing the Saraswati Veena at the age of 3.
The relationship between a stringed instrument and the yali is not limited to this Tamil instrument, but also was mentioned by Śārṅgadeva in his Sangita Ratnakara as a feature of the ekatantri stick-zither veena. [12] The modern Saraswati veena retains this feature. [13] Other types of yazh are: Mayil Yazh – "resembling a peacock" [14]