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Topic: Debashish Bhattacharya Trio |
Andy Volk
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Nic Neufeld
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Kansas City, Missouri
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Posted 14 Mar 2020 9:27 am |
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That's his new design, the pushpa veena.
What I would compare it to is the sarod, which is one of the main "competitors" to the sitar in Hindustani classical music. Most notably played by Ali Akbar Khan. Whereas the sitar has a solid wood top, a jawari bridge (the buzzy tone), a gourd body, and raised frets, the sarod has a carved wood body, a skin / hide top, a fixed non-jawari bridge, and a metal fingerboard without frets (usually played more with the fingernail). Has a very bright, clear tone compared to the sitar.
The pushpa veena is basically the same concept but played with a bar (like other indian slide instruments and the vichitra veena). I would say it has the sarod sound very closely. His guitar based instruments (with the lower strings) have a bit more of the sitar sound (at least, with a closed jawari).
Great tihai at the end of the jhalla!
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Andy Volk
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Posted 14 Mar 2020 9:55 am
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Thanks for the education, Nic!
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Gene Tani
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Pac NW
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Posted 14 Mar 2020 12:20 pm
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from 2013 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8WWNKhdy-w
He's pretty amazing, i'll have to dig thru CD stores to find what's available.
I thought i had one of his CD's in my itunes but what i was thinking of was Doug Cox/Salil Bhatt https://www.amazon.com/Slide-Freedom-Doug-Cox/dp/B000NJKYUO
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Keith Glendinning
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United Kingdom
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Posted 14 Mar 2020 1:19 pm
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| I watched this concert on Lap Steel Lunatics and I thought it was brilliant. |
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Steve Cunningham
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