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Nityanand Haldipur (born 7 May 1948) is a performer and teacher of the Indian bamboo flute, known in India as the bansuri.He is a purist in the true Maihar Gharana tradition and learned from Ma Annapurna Devi, in Mumbai, India. [1]
By recreating the 7 hole bansuri flute in the bamboo (from Kerala) used by venu flutes, he has widened the avenue of Carnatic style Bansuri playing in Carnatic music which was pioneered by his famous guru. This is a tediously time-consuming process taking years to form in timbre and quality before reaching the concert platform.
The bansuri-like flute is depicted in ancient Buddhist, [4] Hindu [5] and Jain temple paintings and reliefs, and is common in the iconography of the Hindu god Krishna. [6] [7] It is intimately linked to the love story of Krishna and Radha. [8] The bansuri is revered as Lord Krishna's divine instrument and is often associated with Krishna's Rasa ...
However, standard bansuri usually only have six holes. These differences are mainly to accommodate the different styles of music that are played on it. The Sa on the venu is achieved by closing the top two finger holes. On a bansuri the top three finger holes are closed to achieve this note. The way the notes are played is also slightly different.
Deepak Ram (born 1960) [citation needed] is a South African born flautist, composer, keyboard player and producer of Indian origin. Deepak is considered a master of bansuri, an Indian flute of ancient origin made from bamboo.
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.
The nadasvaram has a range of two and a half octaves, similar to the Indian bansuri flute, which also has a similar fingering. Unlike the flute where semi and quarter tones are produced by the partial opening and closing of the finger holes, in the nadasvaram they are produced by adjusting the pressure and strength of the air-flow into the pipe.
The sisters hold that at its root, the flute is a folk instrument with a history embedded by legends of the Mahabharata period when Krishna wooed gopis with his bansuri or flute. [ 1 ] Debopriya Chatterjee received a Sangeet Natak Academy award in the Hindustani Instrumental category as a flute artist from the Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar ...