A Comprehensive Guide to Tanpura : It’s Construction, Significance and Relevance in Indian Classical Music
Baithak Foundation, Baithak Foundation
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- Type
- article
- Level
- intermediate
- Language
- en
- Cost
- free
- Topics
- tanpura, drone, tuning
What it is
A guide to the tanpura written from the Hindustani side: four strings, the first usually tuned to Pa but sometimes to Ma or Ni, the middle pair to Sa, the last to the lower Sa, and its role as a backdrop for the performer.
Why it is useful here
An independent description of the drone tuning, to compare with Wikipedia; it is Hindustani practice, so the Carnatic tuning is read from the NIOS book.
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