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The flute pitch is usually marked on the blowing end. It is denoted either in numbers on a Venu from 1 to 7 with or without (1/2, indicating one semitone higher) or as per the standard Pitch letters on a Bansuri from A to G with or without (#-Sharps/b-Flats). The size varies up to 12 sizes in length, each providing different pitches.
Sri Sarabha Sastri (1872–1904) was an Indian venu flute player, [1] known as the first great Brahmin flutist. [2] He brought the flute to the mainstream Indian Carnatic concert stage – until then, it was almost exclusively a folk instrument.
Sikkil Kunjumani (10 June 1927 – 13 November 2010) and Sikkil Neela (9 September 1938 – 17 September 2023) were sisters who played the carnatic flute, called Venu flute. Together they are more famously known as the Sikkil Sisters .
Transverse flute with B Foot, also with C Foot available (Buffet Crampon) Transverse flutes include the Western concert flute, the Irish flute, the Indian classical flutes (the bansuri and the venu), the Chinese dizi, the Western fife, a number of Japanese fue, and Korean flutes such as daegeum, junggeum and sogeum.
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Natesan Ramani (15 October 1934 – 9 October 2015), commonly known as N. Ramani or N. Flute Ramani, was an Indian Carnatic flautist. He was awarded the Madras Music Academy 's Sangeetha Kalanidhi in 1996.
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A vessel flute with two fingering holes of the same size can sound three notes (both closed, one open, both open). A vessel flute with two fingering holes of different sizes can sound four notes (both closed, only the smaller hole open, only the bigger hole open, both open). The number of notes increases with the number of holes: