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String instrument; Other names: Vina [1]: Classification: String instruments: Developed: Veena has applied to stringed instruments in Indian written records since at least 1000 BCE. . Instruments using the name have included forms of arched harp and musical bow, lutes, medieval stick zithers and tube zithers, bowed chordophones, fretless lutes, the Rudra bīn and Sarasvati v
A medieval instrument, labeled nagaveena (snake veena), is a type of musical scraper. Chigggjha – fire tong with brass jingles; Chengila – metal disc; Eltathalam; Gegvrer – brass vessel; Ghaynti – Northern Indian bell; Ghatam and Matkam (Earthenware pot drum) Ghunyugroo; Khartal or Chiplya; Manjira or jhanj or taal; Nut – clay pot ...
Veena (India) Mohan veena; Ranjan veena; Sagar veena (Pakistan) Triveni veena; Vichitra veena (India) Vihuela (Mexico) Vihuela (Spain) Viola amarantina (Portugal) Viola beiroa (Portugal) Viola braguesa (Portugal) Viola caipira (Brazil) Viola campanica (Portugal) Viola da terra (the Azores) Viola de arame (Portugal) Viola de cocho (Brazil) Viola ...
The instrument name comes from the category plasmaphones, in which the sound comes from plasma. unpitched percussion: Pyrophone: plasmaphone: Uses explosions to produce sound in pipes. Weak similarity to pipe organ or calliope (which run air/steam through pipes, but producing sound through the friction of air on ducts). pitched percussion ...
The rudra veena is classified either as a stick zither [2] or tube zither [7] [8] in the Sachs-Hornbostel classification system. The veena's body (dandi) is a tube of bamboo or teak between 137 and 158 cm (54 and 62 in) long, attached to two large tumba resonators made from calabash gourds.
It is also known as chitravina (Sanskrit: चित्रवीणा), chitra veena, chitraveena, chitra vina, hanumad vina and mahanataka vina. Today it is played mainly in South India, though its origins can be traced back to Bharata's Natya Shastra (200 BCE-200 CE), where it is mentioned as a seven string fretless instrument.
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The second instrument is a modified archtop Hawaiian guitar, created by Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, [5] and is the instrument most commonly referred to by the name Mohan veena. This instrument has between 19 and 21 strings in total: three to four melody and four to five drone strings strung from the peghead, and twelve sympathetic strings strung to the ...