Santoor Recital by Keshav Batish

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Keshav is 9 years old and recently did a short recital for his 4th grade class at his school in California. He is the grandson of the legendary Pandit Shiv Dayal Batish and is presently studying Indian music from his father Pandit Ashwin Kumar Batish at the Batish Institute of Indian Music and Fine Arts in Santa Cruz California USA. He enoys Indian music and along with the santoor he is practicing hard on the dilruba, sitar, dholak and congas

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[manga12]

is all that sound comming from that one instrament? that is real nice sounding to the ear

[ragmala]

Yes. The instrument has 93 strings, 3 per note, for a total of 31 notes with a tuning range of up to 3 octaves. Keshav is playing a very popular folk song "Govinda Aalaa Re" in taal Dadra, a 6 beat rhythm cycle. Thank you for your comments.

[Trinilove25]

What a confident young man. What beautiful music! Great parenting.

[kilos04]

way to go..

[lozoft9]

most of our instruments were invented during the mughal period so that makes sense.

[MrGaara301]

WHOOTS my names too keshav :D and i also ply an instrument but not this :I but i play the Trumpet.

[johnnyguitarcarson]

Hello Keshav,

It is Johnny from the Conference

Thanx for the internet advice

Johnny Guitar Carson

[samratdp]

I suggest you link this video to DynamycDesi - they give weekly awards to such talents and can be a good platform to promote globally

[journeyofman2000]

We have santur in Iran too. Its a little different.

[manga12]

interesting, It must take lots of practice to be good at a precise insterment like that, even more then the violin

I sadly dont play any insterments, I sing gregorian chant a little though by ear.