Introducing Tanpura to the audience

Acharya Dr Chintamani Rath (http://www.ragaculture.com) offers a quick, impromptu explanation about the Tanpura in answer to a question before the start of a concert in Tauranga, New Zealand.
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Category:

Music

Tags:

• Indian
• Music
• Raga
• Tanpura
• Violin
• Chintamani
• Hindustani
• Classical
• Ethnomusic

[dclx5i]

very very informative and eloquent

[ragaist]

@dclx5i - Thank you. There is a lot to be spoken about the Tanpura - its history, development, usage, types and also modern experiments in new designs. This was a short speech in answer to an unexpected question asked right before the performance, so was answered without proper preparation. One of these days I will discuss more about the Tanpura either here or on my website.

[dclx5i]

@ragaist ... i'm sure we all gladly look forward to it.

i wud also like to say that it was nice to see you using an actual tanpura in ur show, they've become so rare since the electronic sound box instrument have got popular.

[ragaist]

@dclx5i - I like to use the actual instrument where I can. Actually, two of them, one on each side, sound very nice! I do not like the electronic sound boxes. If I absolutely do not get a tanpura for my concert, I make do with a recording of my tanpura on a CD, played in the background. Far from ideal, but better than the soundbox. I reiterate however that there's nothing to beat a real, large sized (which the tanpura in this concert was not) 4 (not 5 or more) stringed authentic instrument.

[Vaadhak]

informative...

[tenaciusdmaster]

i love the sound of those instruments !!!!!!!!!!!!!

[piroschka6]

thanks.....but what a bo female and male strings resp. tanpuras......