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Tritantri Veena
Tritantri or Tritantrika vina/veena can refer to two different instruments: A medieval stick zither with 3 strings. As a term for small practice sitar malaproped in the 19th century by Raja Sir Surindo Mohun Tagore from Calcutta (1840-1914) The New Grove Dictionary of Musical instruments '84 ed. (iii) p735 This small practice sitar was built from a single piece of wood, about 100 cm in length. It had a small resonator, about 20 cm in diameter, carved of the same log. The neck was topped with 16 metal frets set in wax on wooden tracks, and a tuning box with three pegs. References External linksMuseum Philharmonie de Paris {{Authority control Indian musical instruments [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sourindra Mohun Tagore
Raja Sourindra Mohun Tagore or Sourindro Mohun Tagore CIE (1840, Pathuriaghata - 5 June 1914, Calcutta) was a Bengali musicologist who came from an upper-class family from Bengal region of the Indian subcontinent; that also later produced Rabindranath Tagore. He studied both Indian and western music theory and published extensively on the topics. He founded the Bengal Music School and Bengal Academy of Music. A staunch supporter of the British Empire and its agencies in India, he was commissioned to set Indian translations of ''God Save the Queen'' to Indian tunes. Biography Sourindro was the son of Hara Kumar Tagore and a younger brother of Jotindro Mohun Tagore belonging to the Pathuriaghata branch of the Tagore family. His family owned extensive lands including the battleground of Plassey and the pilgrimage site Ganga Sagar. He studied at the European-model Hindu College in Calcutta and took an interest in music, both Indian and western. He published a book on music at th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tritantri Vina
Tritantri or Tritantrika vina/veena can refer to two different instruments: A medieval stick zither with 3 strings. As a term for small practice sitar malaproped in the 19th century by Raja Sir Surindo Mohun Tagore from Calcutta (1840-1914) The New Grove Dictionary of Musical instruments '84 ed. (iii) p735 This small practice sitar was built from a single piece of wood, about 100 cm in length. It had a small resonator, about 20 cm in diameter, carved of the same log. The neck was topped with 16 metal frets set in wax on wooden tracks, and a tuning box with three pegs. References External linksMuseum Philharmonie de Paris {{Authority control Indian musical instruments [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indian Musical Instruments
Indian musical instruments can be broadly classified according to the Hornbostel–Sachs system into four categories: chordophones (string instruments), aerophones (wind instruments), membranophones (drums) and idiophones (non-drum percussion instruments). Chordophones Plucked strings Bowed strings * Chikara * Dhantara * Dilruba * Ektara violin * Esraj * Kamaicha * Kingri (string instrument) * Mayuri Vina or Taus * Onavillu * Behala (violin type) * Pena (musical instrument) * Pinaka vina * Pulluvan Veena - one stringed violin * Ravanahatha * Sarangi * Classical Sarangi * Sarinda * Tar Shehnai * Villu Paatu - arched bow instrument + Behala - Bengal Murshidabad Violin Persian "Behaaleh" (Restless) Other string instruments * Gethu or Jhallari – struck tanpura * Gubguba or Jamuku (khamak) * Pulluvan kutam * Santoor – Hammered dulcimer Aerophones Single reed *Pepa * Pungi or Been Double reed * Kuzhal * Mukhavina * Nadaswaram * Shehnai * Sun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
