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| Name | Introducing the two rare & extinct instruments #SURSINGAR & #MOHANVEENA #rareinstruments |
| Video Uploader | Video From Joydeep Mukherjee Official |
| Upload Date | This Video Uploaded At 11-09-2021 00:57:17 |
| Video Discription | For concerts / demonstrations on these instruments please contact the artist at [email protected] or call / whatsapp +91 9903230373. For concerts on rare music, rare instruments, experimental music please message in WhatsApp: +919903230373 OR write to [email protected] Assignments are accepted in terms of lecture-demonstrations, performance and presentations on Indian Music, Classical Music and Rare Instruments. SUR-SHRINGER by Joydeep Mukherjee _______________________ An extremely rare and extinct instrument of 18th century for Dhrupad is Surshringer, developed from the Senia Rabab atleast 2 decades before Sarod. It was a Royal instrument, developed in the Royal court of Varanasi around 1795 AD. Ruling the Indian music stage for 150 years, this instrument lost its popularity from 1940-50s. After Baba Alauddin Khan, Birendra Kishore Roychowdhury, Drabir Khan and Radhika Mohan Maitra, this instrument haven't got any great performer in the last 70 years. Revived this instrument with current technology and modern techniques for better sound and tonal quality. RADHIKA MOHAN VEENA by Joydeep Mukherjee (Mohanveena of Radhika Mohan Maitra) This unique instrument is a mix of 3 instruments - Sarod, Surbahar and Veena created by Pt. Radhika Mohan Maitra in 1948 but became extinct from the stage post his demise in 1981. It has resonance like Surbahar, sweetness of sound like Sarod and tonal quality of Veena. Unique sound. It was in 1943, when the young sarod player Radhika Mohan Maitra (He was not "Pandit Maitra" at that time - aged was 26 years) played Jugalbandi in Surshringar with Ustad Sadiq Ali Khan on Veena at a private concert in Lucknow which was attended by many great musicians of that time. Post the concert Maitra felt the necessity of a 3-in-1 instrument which would have the tonal quality of the Veena, resonance to that of the Surbahar & sweetness cum faster ‘bol-bani’ playing capability to that of a Sarod. Knowing the difficulty of playing Surshringer, he was trying to find a bridge instrument between Surshringer & Sarod by which the "baaj" of Surshringer can be implemented in an instrument that can be played by Sarod players without any difficulty. After some years of experimentation, in 1948, he came up with a design of an instrument which looks like an amalgamation of Surbahar & Sarod. In the new instrument the essence of Surshringer, Veena, Surbahar & Sarod was incorporated. Amazed by its design & sound quality, Thakur Jaidev Singh, the- then producer of All India Radio named the instrument as “Mohan Veena” after the name of Pt. Maitra in 1949. Hence Mohanveena got registered with All India Radio in 1949. He also recorded an interview of Pt. Maitra along with a recital in the same year. It was one of the most successful experiments of him where he played several National Programs and numerous AIR recordings on this instrument, which are now the assets of AIR archives. In this instrument the goat skin of the sarod was replaced by light wood and the huge ‘tabli’ of Surbahar/ Surshringer is minimised. The bridge was flattened and one smaller bridge was added like the Surbahar for sympathetic strings, i.e. ‘Jawari’ component has been added. During1990s Doordarshan did a documentary on this instrument entitled "Mohanveena - a Genesis". However, post his retirement from the professional stage in 1977 and following his untimely death in 1981, the instrument became almost extinct. Furthur during 1991 when the world famous instrumentalist Pt. Vishwa Mohan Bhatt named his self created modified & upgraded Guitar as "Mohanveena" and popularized this instrument across the world, today, hardly any people esp outside Bengal, remembers the creation of Pt. Radhika Mohan Maitra. |
| Category | Music |
| Tags | Rare instruments | surshringer | Mohanveena | Radhika Mohan Maitra | Vishwa Mohan Bhatt | Amjad Ali Khan |
