Ranjan veena
Ranjan Veena is a plucked string musical instrument invented and patented by Pandit Niranjan Haldar, a retired senior Grade-A artist from All India Radio (Indore, India).
Invention
Haldar has more than 40 years of experience in Indian and Western Classical music[1] and has performed at various concerts and events such as Vichitra Veena for Akashvani, Doordarshan and Sangeet Natak Academy. He drew inspiration from Vichitra Veena.
After a decade of work he created a smaller musical instrument with a unique tonal quality that is a combination of the veena, sitarganduitar.[2] The instrument is played with picks on fore-finger, middle-finger and thumb.[3] On the Ranjan Veena, an experienced musician can play all the Indian Classical Instrumental techniques: Meed (Slide) Gamak, Krintan, Gitkari and the fast Taans.
Structure
- Type: finger picking instruments
- Picks: 2 Finger Picks, 1 Thumb Pick & Stone/ Glass slide
- Size (L*B*H): (1100mm X 330mm X 150mm)
- Weight: 3.6 kg (7.93 lbs)
- Main Strings: 5; Secondary/ Chikari Strings - 4; Sympathetic Strings - 12; Octave Range - 4
- Tuning Knobs: 21 (Indian design with guitar-like mechanism)
- Fret: with 19 reference frets.
References
- ↑ "Indian classical music instruments | Ranjan Veena". www.ranjanveena.com. Retrieved 2016-01-22.
- ↑ "Omenad - Online Music Education". www.omenad.net. Retrieved 2016-01-22.
- ↑ "Omenad - Online Music Education". www.omenad.net. Retrieved 2016-01-30.