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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 ...
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]
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 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.
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 ...
saraswati veena [68] vina: Semitonically fretted lute with a long, cylindrical shape, resting on two gourds: 311.222: Indonesia: angklung [69] [70] Two bamboo tubes, closed at one end and with tongues, attached to a square frame, played by shaking from side to side, causing the tongues to vibrate 112.122 Iran: tar [71]
He is a top grade Veena artist and received Ugadi Visishta puraskaram by the chief minister of Andhra Pradesh. Performing Prestigious Veena concerts all over India and Abroad since 25 years. He is the only Veena artist who performed at the UN.
Dattatreya Parvatikar playing Rudra Veena. Parvatikar, an exponent of nada yoga, tried to spread spirituality through music. He was keenly interested in Indian classical music and played the rudra veena. Alain Daniélou made recordings of his performances between 1950 and 1955.