An amazing musician from Trivandrum, Kerala, INDIA !

I was in Trivandrum, the capital city of Kerala, India for a few days. As I am stationed now in north Kerala after my re-location from Europe, I do not visit Trivandrum (where I was born) that often. During the vist last week I was able to travel around and inside Trivandrum city and take a long trip down the memory lane.This clip was taken after I met an amazing musician in front of the famous Sree Padmanabha Temple on the 15th of August,Friday, 2008. For the past 47 years he had been making a sort of hand made simple violin and selling it to the public to make a living. Mr Shamsudin played an appropriate tune for me on his violin as it was Indian Independence Day that day. His sound clarity was incredible.Hope u all enjoy his music.

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• violin
• kerala
• india

[pongop]

what a great instrument and musician. thanks for sharing!

[KRISHNARAJIYENGAR]

Nice video! I would love to know what violin this is. Could you please also mention the material for the string and the bow?There is a Rajasthani counerpart to this as well called Ravan Hattha. Thanks for the video!

[kpjitesh]

Nice observation and thanks for sharing, amazing ....

[josephinemasih]

humara hindustan!! jai hind! beatifully played...

[himanshujoshi46]

sarey jahan se acha hindusitan hamara ,, hum bulbuley hai iski ye gulsitan hamara

[makkansreeni]

he is not tamil he sells violin in front of pathnabha puram temple trivandrum for 20 rupees and so on he has got amazing inborn talents and this talent is not utilized for anything as the others have no time to encourage this poor person

[basicsandwich]

Brilliant! I'd buy one,nicer sould than a £300euro violin

[Max0Inq]

What are they made of?

[MegaDonor]

good talented coz he plys with single note .....near to A# Minor pythagorean scale...Wonderfull lol!

[rakeshs21]

Thanks for Posting.

We Indian full of FOOLS does not respect our own culture & gems.

[KRISHNARAJIYENGAR]

also an example of secularism!