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The musician stops the resonating strings, when so desired, with the fingers of the free hand. In modern times the veena has been generally replaced with the sitar in North Indian performances. [1] [3] The South Indian Saraswati veena, used in Carnatic classical music, is a lute. It is a long-necked, pear-shaped lute, but instead of the lower ...
The ancient veena is an early Indian arched harp, not to be confused with the modern Indian veena which is a type of lute or stick zither. Names of specific forms of the arched harp include the chitra vīṇā with seven strings, the vipanchi vīṇā with nine strings and the mattakokila vīṇā a harp or possibly board zither with 21 strings.
Over the veena's evolution and modifications, more particular names were used to help distinguish the instruments that followed. The word veena in India was a term originally used to generally denote "stringed instrument", and included many variations that would be either plucked, bowed or struck for sound. [1] [2]
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]
This category includes musicians of Veena-genre of instruments, commonly used of Indian classical music, including Saraswati veena, Rudra veena, Vichitra veena and Chitra veena. Subcategories This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total.
The Karaikudi Veena Brothers, from right to left: Karaikudi Sambasiva Iyer (veena), Karaikudi Subbarama Iyer (veena upright position) and Pudukkotai Dakshinamurthy Pillai (mridangam). 1917. Through the ritualistic devasam (also called Śrāddha ), it is known that before the first recorded members of the Karaikudi family, the lineage goes back ...
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– Playing the Veena soundtrack in Director CV Sridhar's classic Tamil movie called Kalai Kovil in 1964. The protagonist of this movie R. Muthuraman was a Veena artiste, and the entire background score for the Veena was played and recorded by Chitti Babu. This movie received wide critical acclaim for its music and storyline and performances by ...
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