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Sunday, August 22nd, 2010 by admin
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Surbahar

Possibly invented by Umrao Khan, beenker of Lucknow, the instument, a variety of sitar was actually developed by Ghulam Mohammad of Banda around 1830 and his son Sajjad Ahmed both accomplished players of sitar and surbahar in the nineteenth century. Compared to the sitar the instrument is larger with a longer neck and wider, and ...

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Sunday, August 22nd, 2010 by admin
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Sarangi

Sarangi is sometimes called the Indian violin but shaped differently and larger in size. Sarangi has been used for long time as the main accompaniment in North Indian vocal music. It can particularly play the sedulous ape to North Indian classical music as it can emit tonal sounds akin to human voice and also execute ...

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Sunday, August 22nd, 2010 by admin
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Santoor

A variety of harp something like the swaramandal originating from Kashmir which has been innovated and developed to become a solo playing concert instrument replacing swaramandal. The most outstanding exponents of santoor are now Shiv Kumar Sharma, Omprakash Chaurasia and Bhajan Sopori of whom Shiv Kumar Sharma is now based mostly in Mumbai while Chaurasia ...

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Sunday, August 22nd, 2010 by admin
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Rabab (Rebab)

This is a music instrument of Persian or Afghan origin of the same name but adopted during Mughal times in the reign of Emperor Akbar by Tansen. The rabab has no frets unlike the sitar but has four strings, one or two of brass and two of gut with sympathetic metal strings attached to the ...

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Sunday, August 22nd, 2010 by admin
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Esraj (Israj)

It is a stringed instrument akin to the dilruba sounding like sarangi with a sharper but mellower tone. It has frets but is played with a bow and has also sympathetic strings as in sitar. The tonal quality of this stringed instrument is closer to the human voice compared even to the sarangi which is ...

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Sunday, August 22nd, 2010 by admin
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Dilruba

The dilruba has a shape like that of a sarangi with a longer dandi and played with a bow made of a horse hair like the bow of the violin, but has movable frets like the sitar numbering nineteen, but unlike the sarangi which has no frets. It has four main strings, two made of ...

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Sunday, July 25th, 2010 by admin
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Rajkumari – Interview

____________________ Profile – Interview Solo Song List | 1931 – 1940 | 1941 – 1950 | 1951 – Onwards | ____________________ Rajkumari Dubey was just 10 years old when she recorded her first song for HMV in 1934. But she started her career as a stage artiste. She recounts, “Vijay and Shankar Bhatt of Prakash ...

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Tuesday, July 13th, 2010 by admin
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Shamshad Begum – Interview

____________________ Profile – Interview – Gallery Back to Legends – Shamshad Begum ____________________ Shamshad Begum, the undisputed melody queen of yesteryear, lives the life of a recluse today. This reclusiveness gives her an aura of mystery befitting her personality. She was, and remains, a reserved person. If she is known and loved today — six ...

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Sunday, July 11th, 2010 by admin
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Talat Mahmood’s Interview

____________________ Profile – Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 Fact File – Filmography – Interview – Photo Gallery Back to Legends – Talat Mahmood ____________________ Not many Talat Mahmood fans with associate him with acting. After all, the mellow voice which rendered golden classics like Jalte hain jiske liye, Tasveer banata ...

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Saturday, July 3rd, 2010 by admin
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Suraiya’s Interview

____________________ Profile – Fact File Filmography – Interview – Photo Gallery Back to Legends – Suraiya ____________________ There was a time when traffic jams at Marine Drive (Mumbai) were caused not due to a long line of cars, but because of a young charismatic actress whose melodious voice had cast a spell on thousands of ...

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