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Veena or vina
Early history
Initially used as a name for any chordophone, ancient "veena" were musical bows with increasing strings such as
these later developed into Harp veena like yazh and the burmese saung gauk.
concordantly, short necked lutes originating from graeco-buddhist northwestern gandhara province. these where played standing but held variously, pearshaped pipa-like lutes appear in peninsular India, these were played sitting or standing. kaccapi vina is believed to be lute-type.
Medieval Stick Zither
Medieval Stick Zither type veena. gradually replacing the previous harp and short-neck lute type, many folk instruments are these. principal types are alapini vina, ekatantri vina, and kinnari vina.
Folk Stick Zither
Of note is tuila, kullutna rajan, and also the jantar, which are Folk Stick-zithers
The Bīn
Fretless Stick Zither
The Vicitrā vīṇā is the northern fretless instrument, it is a Stick Zither, but this is actually of the hybrid bīṇ sitār type: it has a wide neck (about 10 cm) which is D shaped with the sympathetic strings' pegs set in the side. The neck ends in an integrated wood resonator, often carved like a peacock's head, in some cases it is smaller and pear-shaped, in others it is larger like the sitar's. The hollow neck has two large bottle-gourds screwed into the back. The main strings are tuned in descending 4th and 5ths, the slider (baṭṭā) is a glass egg.
Saraswatī Vīṇā
Table of Veena:
Cell 1 | Cell 2 |
Chikara wd en jira | |
sarod | |
Sursingar wd en mb hybrid plucked north indian classical lute invented c1800 by jaffar khan (seniya family) resonator, front and bridge from sitar, upperpart of neck/pegboard like the rabab, tuned and played like rabab, plectrum like sitar. |
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sitar wd en mb hindustani sitar seems to have more in common with large uzbek dutar wd en mb than persian setar wd en mb
other sitar types: (distribution and related features suggest a common development)
sada sitar (plain or practice sitar) |
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kachva sitar aka kacchapi vina | Cell 2 |
surbahar wd en mb effectively a bass sitar. invented c1820 by ghulam muhammad |
Cell 2 |
tanpura aka tambura aka tanpur (etc) | |
saraswati veena | |
vichitra veena | |
rudra veena | |
mohan veena | |
hansa veena ?(novelty) |
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pulluvan veena wd ge mb! | |
Cell 1 | Cell 2 |
Cell 1 | Cell 2 |
Cell 1 | Cell 2 |
taus | |
mayuri-vina |
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yazh Mayil Yazh[2] |
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saung gauk |