For temple festivals, they're common. We get a professional duo here each summer for 10 days, and when inside, it's really loud. I like instruments that have a certain melancholy mystical sound. As a kid, it was bagpipes.
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Favorite instrument sound...
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I prefer veena over sitar. One of the interesting things about veena is they have 1000 veena concerts, where 1000 players will play simultaneously.
I don't play with instruments music,I just listen .
I think there is app Oud's tunes .
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The lady at temple plays the veena. I haven't heard her yet. She plays along with someone else I know. I had no idea they knew each other until just casually mentioning names. Small world.
I nominate the theremin.
Bernard Herrmann & Danny Elfman really made it work for me.
Bernard Herrmann & Danny Elfman really made it work for me.
Thank you brother.
I saw my cousin using a weird instrument that has five small flutes on it, each one has a note each string in the correct adjustment. He played it and adjusted each string while playing them until the right tone is found. No idea what it's called. Later he memorized the notes.
Yes, I also play a didge.
Don't have a hang drum however. I like those quite a lot.
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My personal favorite is the electric bass guitar. I have played but not well. I have an ear for bass and I love to hear it played well in nearly every musical category.
Aupmanyav
Be your own guru
You have not seen them all. Here: Veena
However my choice is Oboe (Shehnai) and its greatest player in North India, 'Bharat Ratna' (the Jewel of India, India's highest civilian award) Ustad Bismillah Khan; Nadaswaram in South India and one of its greatest players, Dr. Sheikh Chinna Maulana (which BTW means 'the little maulana'
). These are played at all auspicious occasions among Hindus as well as Muslims.
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Here's a haunting sound from an ancient instrument called a Xun. I have one of these, but it's larger and deeper than the one in the video. He's considerably better on one than me.
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Mine is the bass guitar. In the hands of a master, it is an amazing instrument!
You have not seen them all. Here: Veena
However my choice is Oboe, Shehnai and its greatest player in North India, 'Bharat Ratna' (the Jewel of India, India's highest civilian award) Ustad Bismillah Khan; Nadaswaram in South India and one of its greatest players, Dr. Sheikh Chinna Maulana (which BTW means 'the little maulana'
More beasts (this time a flute too!)
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Aupmanyav
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Shehnai (derives from Shah) is not a flute, though it is a wind instrument. However, we have large flutes also, some of the Indian flute maestros:
Pandits (Ustad) Hari Prasad Chaurasia, Panna Lal Ghosh, Ravi Shankar Mishra, Ronu Majumdar, Nityanand Haldipur.
Pandits (Ustad) Hari Prasad Chaurasia, Panna Lal Ghosh, Ravi Shankar Mishra, Ronu Majumdar, Nityanand Haldipur.
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Yes, the Bansuri. I have the standard E n concert bansuri, as they are playing above. A larger D n bass at 34", a G n bass and F n bass. My E n concert and F are made by Bakale, the lower D and G bansuris are from Subhash Thakur. They are the nicer flutes as they are made from 3 year aged bamboo. The Bakale ones are nice however, as they have a slightly brighter more 'woody' sound. The Suhash ones are richer and warmer and more nuanced. I love playing these instruments. Simple, as far as an instrument goes as a piece of hollow bamboo with holes burned into it and a cork at one end, yet incredibly challenging to learn how to play well. Such incredible depth and emotion possible through them.Shehnai (derives from Shah) is not a flute, though it is a wind instrument. However, we have large flutes also, some of the Indian flute maestros:
Pandits (Ustad) Hari Prasad Chaurasia, Ravi Shankar Mishra, Ronu Majumdar, Nityanand Haldipur.
Aupmanyav
Be your own guru
I have edited my previous post and added a photograph of Pandit Panna Lal Ghosh. I was, sort of, missing him. Of course, there are many more versatile players of flute, none from South India have been included.
Then, musical instruments from my desert home-state, Rajasthan
http://www.musicofrajasthan.com/music.html
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