How to Play the Tambura : The Foundations of Tambura

Learn how to understand the foundations of the tambura and get professional tips and instruction from an expert on playing stringed instruments and lyres in this free music lesson video.

Expert: ek
Bio: Carol Lakshmi has dedicated her life to the study of music, art, and Eastern philosophy.
Filmmaker: Evakay Favia

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[ogfeen]

@ninjalinkninja yes I agree different vocabs. But for the lady to say "use the fine tuning keys to bring the notes into better resonance" sounds wrong, into tune, would be a better phrase, as she then continues to say that the little piece of string creates the resonance, it send out mixed signals. the string is already vibrating at its resonant frequency (resonating). The piece of string only adds colour to the sound, it does not create a new note. ps consonance = the 4th 5th & 8th.

[ninjalinkninja]

@ogfeen Sounds like that's a technical term from a physics book. I'm sure we can both be right, because I know for sure that two notes either create resonance or dissonance when played together, depending on their frequency. Resonant intervals are the fourth, fifth, and octave, or the same note on the other instrument. Dissonant notes are the diminished fifth interval, for example. Like I said, different groups or fields have different vocabularies.

[ogfeen]

@ninjalinkninja not trying to be rude here, but resonance is when a sound wave vibrates with greater amplitude due to what is known as constructive interference, this is when a sound wave hits the boundaries of its system at a point of maximum or minimum displacement causing some of the amplitude of the previous wave to add to the next. this happens only at certain frequencies known as resonant frequencies. it has nothing to do with two notes.

[ninjalinkninja]

Gotta get this straightened out, you two. A) don't be rude, B) resonance as defined by the Oxford English Dictionary "synchronous vibration" refers to two notes playing at the same time, such as the root and the fifth, which is what the Tambura does, but it doesn't refer to the buzzing, which is a diffusion of the main tone and the overtones of the single string. Why she refers to the buzzing as resonance could be anything, as different groups have different vocabularies.

[cactusleaf]

Resonance. Maybe she means .. buzzing. I don't think a string buzzing against a flat piece of bone is considered resonance. It's a great and complex effect, the buzzing, but it's not resonance. Expert Village is complete fail. Every video, every time.