Bansuri
Murali, Bansi

Classification Indian Woodwind Instrument Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... A musical instrument is a device constructed or modified with the purpose of making music. ... A woodwind instrument is a musical instrument in which sound is produced by blowing through a mouthpiece against an edge or by a vibrating reed, and in which the pitch is varied by opening or closing holes in the body of the instrument. ... Playing range 2.5 Octaves (six-hole), 3 Octaves (seven-hole) The playing range of a musical instrument is the region of pitch in which it can play, i. ... Related instruments Venu A musical instrument is a device constructed or modified with the purpose of making music. ... The venu is a bamboo transverse flute used in the Carnatic music of South India. ... Musicians Famous Bansuri Players The bansuri (Hindi: ) is a transverse alto flute of India, made of a single length of bamboo with six or seven open finger holes. ... More articles Hindustani classical music, Pannalal Ghosh Hindustani Classical Music is an Indian classical music tradition that took shape in northern India in 13th and 14th centuries AD from existing religious, folk, and theatrical performance practices. ... Pannalal Ghosh (1911-1960), also known as Amal Jyoti Ghosh, was a Bengali Indian bānsurī player and composer. ...

The bansuri (Hindi: बांसुरी) is a transverse alto flute of India, made of a single length of bamboo with six or seven open finger holes. An ancient musical instrument associated with cowherds and the pastoral tradition, it is intimately linked to the love story of Krishna and Radha, and is depicted in Buddhist paintings from around 100 AD. The North Indian bansuri, typically about 14 inches long, was traditionally used as a soprano instrument primarily for accompaniment in lighter compositions including film music. Its introduction for serious Hindustani Classical Music is credited to Pandit Pannalal Ghosh. Hindi (हिन्दी) is a language spoken mainly in North and Central India. ... The flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. ... Krishna with Radha, 18th C Rajasthani painting Krishna (कृष्ण in Devanagari, in IAST ) is a deity worshipped across many traditions of Hinduism. ... A Rajastani style painting of Sri Radha Radha (Devanagari: राधा) is a famous female personality from Hindu, (Vedic) tradition, also known as Radharani, prefixed with the respectful term Srimati by devout followers. ... A replica of an ancient statue found among the ruins of a temple at Sarnath Buddhism is a philosophy based on the teachings of the Buddha, Siddhārtha Gautama, a prince of the Shakyas, whose lifetime is traditionally given as 566 to 486 BCE. It had subsequently been accepted by... (Redirected from 100 AD) For other uses, see number 100. ... Timeline and Samples Genres Classical (Carnatic and Hindustani) - Rock - Pop - Hip hop Awards Bollywood Music Awards - Punjabi Music Awards Charts Festivals Sangeet Natak Akademi – Thyagaraja Aradhana – Cleveland Thyagaraja Aradhana Media Sruti, The Music Magazine National anthem Jana Gana Mana, also national song Vande Mataram Music of the states Andaman and... Hindustani Classical Music is an Indian classical music tradition that took shape in northern India in 13th and 14th centuries AD from existing religious, folk, and theatrical performance practices. ... Pannalal Ghosh (1911-1960), also known as Amal Jyoti Ghosh, was a Bengali Indian bānsurÄ« player and composer. ...

The bansuri in the Krishna love play tradition

The bansuri is intimately associated with Krishna's Rasa lila; the tunes on his flute are poetically associated with driving the women of Braj mad. This story also forms the core theme for hundreds of songs, particularly thumris, including the following, which has been sung by Chhanulal Mishra among others: Ras Lila is a classical Manipuri dance. ... Braj, though never a clearly defined political region, is considered to be the land of Krishna and is derived from the Sanksrit word vraja. ... Thumri is a common genre of semiclassical Indian music from the North. ...

The Bansuri in Hindustani Classical Music

A seven-hole traverse Bansuri

Pandit Pannalal Ghosh (1911-1960) elevated the Bansuri from a folk instrument into serious classical music. He improvised with the length and number of holes and eventually came up with longer bansuris with larger bores and a seventh hole placed 90 degrees around from the line of the other six holes. Longer bansuris provided better coverage in the lower octaves. A bansuri player is able to achieve the complexities of Raga music such as microtonal inflections, ornamentation, and glissando by varying breath, fast movement while playing both half and full holes, and covering the holes gradually. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Pannalal Ghosh (1911-1960), also known as Amal Jyoti Ghosh, was a Bengali Indian bānsurī player and composer. ... Raga (rāg /राग (Hindi), raga (anglicised from rāgaḥ/रागः (Sanskrit)) or rāgam /ராகம் (Tamil)) are the melodic modes used in Indian classical music. ... Microtonal music is music using microtones -- intervals of less than a semitone, or as Charles Ives put it, the notes between the cracks of the piano. ... This article is about inflection in linguistics. ... In music, ornaments are musical flourishes that are not necessary to the overall melodic (or harmonic) line, but serve to decorate or ornament that line. ... Glissando (plural: glissandi) is a musical term that refers to either a continuous sliding from one pitch to another (a true glissando), or an incidental scale played while moving from one melodic note to another (an effective glissando). ...

World renowned Padmasri Pandit Vijay Raghav Rao, composer, conductor, choreographer and poet is one of the leading exponents of the flute in Hindustani classical music today. Other noted exponents of the bansuri include Pandits Hariprasad Chaurasia and Ronu Majumdar and Saeen Ditta Qadri. There are very few or no other articles that link to this one. ... Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia (b. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

The word bansuri originates in the Sanskrit bans [bamboo] + swar [musical note].

There are two varieties of bansuri: the transverse, and the fipple. The fipple variety is usually played in folk music and is held away from the lips like a whistle. Because of the flexibility and control it offers, the transverse variety is preferred in classical music. A fipple mouthpiece uses a narrow windway and a blade-like edge to channel and vibrate air blown into it. ... A fipple mouthpiece uses a narrow windway and a blade-like edge to channel and vibrate air blown into it. ... A whistle is a one-note woodwind instrument which produces sound from a stream of forced air. ...

Bansuris vary in length. They range from about 12 inches up to about 40 inches. 20-inch bansuris are common.

Another common and similar Indian flute played in South India is the venu. The flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. ... South India is a linguistic-cultural region of India that comprises the four Indian states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu and the Union Territory of Pondicherry, whose inhabitants are collectively referred to as South Indians. ... The venu is a bamboo transverse flute used in the Carnatic music of South India. ...

Playing

Fingering chart for seven-hole bansuri

The index, middle, and fourth fingers of both hands are usually used to play the six hole bansuri. For the seven hole bansuri, the fifth finger (pinky) of the right hand is usually used. Image File history File links Bansurifingering_chart_correct. ... Image File history File links Bansurifingering_chart_correct. ... The pinky finger is the last and usually smallest finger on the far sides of the human hand, opposite the thumb, next to the ring finger. ...

The sound from a bansuri comes from resonance in the air column inside it. The length of this column can be varied by closing or opening the holes. At the same time, keeping a hole half-open helps in getting a flat note. The 'sa' (on the Indian sargam scale, or equivalent 'do' on the octave) note is obtained by covering the top three holes from the mouth-hole. The higher and lower octaves are played by changing one's embouchure. The flat portion of fingers, and not the tips, are used to cover the holes as this gives better control and ease while playing the half-holes. While playing, the sitting posture is also important and care must be taken so that the back is not strained for long hours. Bansuris of different sizes are used to play different octaves. The longer bansuris with larger bore are usually for lower octaves and the slimmer ones for higher octaves. This article is about resonance in physics. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Swara. ... The embouchure is the use of facial muscles and the shaping of the lips to the mouthpiece of a wind instrument. ...

In order to play diatonic scale on a bansuri, it is important to find where the notes lie. For e.g. in a bansuri where Sa or the tonic, played always by closing the first three holes, is equivalent to D, you can play sheet music by creating a finger notation that corresponds to different notes. In Music theory, the diatonic major scale (also known as the Guido scale), from the Greek diatonikos or to stretch out, is a fundamental building block of the European-influenced musical tradition. ...

Famous bansuri players

Krishna with Radha, 18th C Rajasthani painting Krishna (कृष्ण in Devanagari, in IAST ) is a deity worshipped across many traditions of Hinduism. ... This article discusses the adherents of Hinduism. ... Pannalal Ghosh (1911-1960), also known as Amal Jyoti Ghosh, was a Bengali Indian bānsurī player and composer. ... Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia (b. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... G. S. Sachdev (born Gurbachan Singh Sachdev) is an Indian performer of the bansuri (bamboo flute). ... Manose Singh is Bansuri flautist born in Nepal. ... Website: http://www. ... Milind Date [Born 28 February] is one of the most versatile musicians from India. ...

Notes, References and Sources

• Indian music (chandrakantha.com)
• MusicalNirvana - Bansuri
• How to play the Bansuri: A manual for Self-Instruction by Lyon Leifer

External links

• Anubodh Bansuri: Neo-Bansuri
• Lyon Leifer's home page
• bansuri.org
• Flauto Bansuri
• Bansuri lessons on Know Your Raga
• Deepak Ram
• Prasad Bhandarkar

See also

• Hindustani classical music
• Venu
• Flute